Quotes

Quotes that continue to inspire me and provide a way forward. This page is a work in progress.

"Truth is truth. How you deal with it is up to you." -The Expanse

"Our main training philosophy is simple. It all comes down to: Find the problem, fix the problem." -Mark Twight

"People are so used to others being indirect and phony that clear direct communication appears aggressive."

"Don't pursue the goal, pursue the 'why'." -The Minimalist

"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject." -Marcus Aurelius

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price. -Kipling

"Good luck is the residue of preparation." -Jack Youngblood

"Add things until it starts sucking, take things away until it stops getting better." -Frank Chimero

"So finish it, and walk away, forward. Only acts undertaken with commitment have meaning. Only your best effort matters." -Mark Twight

"If there’s a question about if it’s necessary, remove it. Less is more and more is lazy." -Jason McCarthy

"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

"It all comes down to preparation. Attention to detail. Redundancies. Redundancies. And redundancies." -The Killer

"When action becomes unprofitable; gather information. When information becomes unprofitable; sleep." -Ursula Leguin

"The terrain will dictate the mission and the enemy gets a vote. You must always be prepared to adjust."

"Have more than you show, speak less than you know." -Shakespeare

"To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen." -Frank Herbert

"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

"If you don't have an exit strategy it's not a plan it's a reaction."

"Get your principles straight; the rest is a matter of detail."

“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.” —William Gibson

If you want to be successful, do what you say your are going to do, when you say you are going to do it.

"Don’t be louder, be better."

“I’d rather thrive in the shadows than hide in the light” —Kegan Dillon

"Speak only as an improvement of the silence."

"If you risk nothing, you risk everything." -Mark Twight

"Keep it simple, keep it reliable, and keep it if it works." -The Security Brutalist

"Change is not to be found at the summit, but is instead a result of the climb."

"Sometimes it’s better to just remain silent and smile."

"Never organize what you can discard. Identify the essential, eliminate the rest."

"Expect the unexpected and be comfortable with unpredictability."

"After you fail - and you will - show up the next day. And the day after that. If you can’t train, watch. If you can’t see, listen. If you truly want to learn you can learn from everything. Eventually, you will. And you will take what you know and DO, and keep doing it, and the road will rise to meet you." —Mark Twight - The Recipe

"Sometimes we have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it'll work or it won't. That is life." -Alex Elle

"When you build in silence, people don’t know what to attack."

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men." -Miyamoto Musashi

"Let it all go. See what stays."

"Dials not switches." -GBRS Group

"What then? Each Frogman faced three choices: 'I can quit and die, complain and drag down those around me, or suffer in silence and destroy these obstacles. I neither want to die nor be a hindrance, so I will choose the path of silence.'" -Sam Alaimo, Why We Should Suffer In Silence