Marcinko Richard Quotes & Sayings

One of art's defining characteristics is its relevance to people's shared experiences and also to the reveries and internal dialogues of their interior lives. — Patrick McNaughton

Call it a character flaw
when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko

When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing. — Richard Marcinko

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible. — Bill Nighy

My waking hours have to be CONSTRUCTIVE ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes. — Mika Waltari

The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own. — C. G. Jung

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. — Richard Marcinko

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past. — Richard Marcinko

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you. — Richard Marcinko

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them. — Gregory David Roberts

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders. — Richard Marcinko

You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you. — David Lynch

Have character, but don't be a character. — Richard Marcinko

Women are not second-class citizens in the kingdom of God, You are 50% of the worlds population, and the mothers of the other 50%. No one can dismiss you lightly. — Gordon Hinckley

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be. — Richard Marcinko

Popularity is not leadership. — Richard Marcinko

You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good. — Trevor Bayne

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them. — Richard Marcinko

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat. — Richard Marcinko

Second Chances [10w]
Every time we go full circle
it's a new circle. — Beryl Dov

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. — Richard Marcinko

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several — Richard Marcinko

Typology acknowledges the factuality of the past event and presupposes a genuine correspondence between the saving and judging activity of God in the past and the present. It is based not on superficial resemblances but on the consistency of the divine action within the frame of reference established by revelation. — Anonymous

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. — John Milton

Shoot first and ask questions not at all — Richard Marcinko

We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises. — John C. Goodman