Karen Salmansohn Quotes

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

Karen Salmansohn

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WorkGoalsEffortStartYouStop

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

LeadershipServiceMenViolenceMay

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

Stephen Merchant

LifeBestI AmPeopleDoorMy Life

I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.

Sid Meier

RespectMeThinkGamesRightLike

The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

BirdsProcessLearnBecomeNormal

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

Tone Loc

FreedomCoolStrikeQuiteActually

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

Robin S. Sharma

LifePassionVisionDecisionChild

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.

Judith Butler

AloneChallengePeopleAliveRight

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

Joshua Oppenheimer

JournalismInformationNewHuman

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

Dick Dale

ManMovingVegasYouLookBad

While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.

Chelsea Manning

HistoryWorldDataCreditPerson

My 20s were really tough, just traveling and living in different countries, and now I feel like I know what I want from life.

Ali Krieger

LifeToughFeelKnowWantLiving

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

Wyatt Cenac

PeopleCountryPlaceWriteLevel

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