Pete Hoekstra famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
-- Pete Hoekstra

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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
-- Pete Hoekstra

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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

Pete Hoekstra famous quotes

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