"Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional……" — Richard Marcinko
"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."
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11 Quotes by Richard Marcinko
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Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where…
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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been,…
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Shoot first and ask questions not at all
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The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.
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Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
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For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You…
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When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for…
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There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
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What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my…
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Popularity is not leadership.
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