Marcinko Book Quotes & Sayings

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. — Jacques Maritain

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action. — Howard Berman

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication. — Douglas Alexander

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing. — Vivian Gornick

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. — Zora Neale Hurston

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict. — Emily Carr

The other Houses don't know that my House still exists. — Josephine Angelini

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it. — Robert Kyncl