47 Quotes
In no particular order.
1.
"Stay quiet. Stay dark."
2.
"Truth is truth. How you deal with it is up to you."
3.
"Our main training philosophy is simple. It all comes down to: Find the problem, fix the problem."
Mark Twight
4.
"Keep it simple."
5.
"So finish it, and walk away, forward. Only acts undertaken with commitment have meaning. Only your best effort matters."
Mark Twight
6.
"Earn the day."
7.
"We should always be asking ourselves: is this something that is or is not in my control?"
Epictetus
8.
One simplistic concept surfaces over and over: work on your weaknesses. We all know this is a truth.
Mark Twight
9.
"People are so used to others being indirect and phony that clear direct communication appears aggressive."
10.
"Be careful what you wish for. Rather, concentrate on what you want. Do it consciously. Prepare for the outcome - whatever the outcome. Understand that what you are seeking is also seeking you - but your definition of it and your expectations may not be the same as its definition of itself."
Mark Twight
11.
"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
Douglas Adams
12.
"Don’t pursue the goal, pursue the ‘why’."
13.
"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life."
Charles Bukowski
14.
"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject."
Marcus Aurelius
15.
"Master the art of observing."
16.
"Luck is the residue of preparation."
17.
"Add things until it starts sucking, take things away until it stops getting better."
Frank Chimero
18.
"The best thinking has been done in solitude."
Thomas A. Edison
19.
"Drivers drive, shooters shoot, and leaders lead."
20.
"There is elegance in simplicity."
21.
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Litany Against Fear, Frank Herbert, Dune
22.
"Don’t quit, don’t give yourself an out. Commit."
23.
"If there’s a question about if it’s necessary, remove it. Less is more and more is lazy."
Jason McCarthy
24.
"Simplicity forces you to be intentional."
25.
"Not breaking flow is an axiom of great tools."
Craig Mod
26.
"Never forget how far you’ve come. Everything you have gotten through. All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn’t. All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was. All the times you wanted to give up but you got through another day. Never forget how much strength you have learned and developed along the way."
27.
"Life doesn’t give a shit about your past accolades and laurels. It’s constantly demanding more and more of you as you spend another day rotting. You can either allow this simple truth to beat you into submission or allow it to drive you to your best human potential. Outside of dying, life guarantees very few things – but you can have a higher success rate of completion if you just put in the work and stopped your whining."
Ian, Rune Nation
28.
"Let it all go. See what stays."
29.
"Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity."
James Clavell, Shōgun
30.
"It all comes down to preparation. Attention to detail. Redundancies. Redundancies. And redundancies."
The killer
31.
"When action becomes unprofitable; gather information. When information becomes unprofitable; sleep."
Ursula Leguin
32.
"How many of you know where you want to go? And where you are now? And how to get from here to there? How many will start on the path, but fail? How many will settle for less? The answer to these questions, based on “your own experiences (and common sense)” is that very few know, and very many will settle for less.
Are you even curious?"
Mark Twight
33.
"The terrain will dictate the mission and the enemy gets a vote. You must always be prepared to adjust."
34.
"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
Shakespeare
35.
"It's not about any system or secret, any specific tool or workout or diet - It is about what is needed at this moment, what has to happen now in order to provide us with what happens next. Our power lies in our flexibility, our ability to spot the weak link, and the willingness to do whatever is necessary to resolve it."
Station515
36.
"To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen."
Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
37.
"In the end we're all alone, and no one's coming to save you."
John Reese
38.
"It is not the violence that sets a man apart. It’s the distance he’s prepared to go."
Forrest Bondurant
39.
"Take the hard words. Use them. Become more because of them. Easy is easy. A slap on the back hurts as much as it glows. Be honest. Be hard. Who you can become will thank who you are right now."
Mark Twight
40.
"If you don't have an exit strategy it's not a plan it's a reaction."
41.
"Commit to the disciplined pursuit of less, but better. It’s not just about getting more done but getting the right things done."
42.
"Get your principles straight; the rest is a matter of detail."
43.
"Things are going to get a lot worse before things get worse."
44.
"After the fact it is an excuse, beforehand it is a reason."
C.C. Chapman
45.
"Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start."
Gil Penchina
46.
"Stupid is what happens when ignorance is rewarded. Repeatedly"
47.
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
Frank Herbert, Dune
And one more...
47'.
"The moment YOU decide that YOUR choices created YOUR circumstances is the moment YOU gain control."