David Marquet Quotes

#1. If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

L. David Marquet

#2. have the strength to stand right now, that was okay. He could be strong enough for both of them.

T.S. Joyce

#3. Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Saint Augustine

#4. Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Theodor Herzl

#5. I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. "I ... must ... not ... look ... like ... a ... baboon's ... backside.

J.K. Rowling

#6. The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

Justine Larbalestier

#7. The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Sigmund Freud

#8. To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

Adam Mansbach

#9. There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Oscar Wilde

#10. We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather than a rich collaboration.

L. David Marquet

#11. I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Joe Biden

#12. Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit

L. David Marquet

#13. Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

L. David Marquet

#14. I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

Sharon Creech

#15. For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

Mary Augusta Ward

#16. The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

Adrian Edmondson

#17. All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by the slightest disturbance into puffing up and flashing warning colors.

Shipstead, Maggie