"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."

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Source : Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books

Richard Marcinko

#Winning Quotes #Past Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.”
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
“Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.”
“Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.”
“The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.”
“Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.”
“I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.”
“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

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