Mark Owen Quotes

#1. Staying in my three-foot world became a mantra for me. It is liberating once you let go of the things you can't control. It seems to work for just about any situation.

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#2. Don't just live, but live for a purpose bigger than yourself. Be an asset to your family, community, and country.

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#3. I learned there that the key was first to prioritize all the individual stressors and then act. I break it all down into the little things I can manage. The stressors that I can't affect, I don't worry about. The ones I can affect, I simply deal with one at a time.

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#4. The Army uses the same principle, but they call them battle buddies.

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#5. I watched as the instructors corrected a SEAL and ordered him to do ten push-ups as punishment. As soon as the SEAL started, his buddies hit the floor too.

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#6. Hero is not a word we use easily, and it had gotten to the point where it had lost all meaning in our community. Everyone was a hero now.

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#7. I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.

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#8. ordered two crispy tacos, a bean burrito, and a medium Pepsi. At

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#9. Take what's there, assess the situation, prioritize, and break it down into small tasks you know you can accomplish or eliminate or fix immediately.

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#10. The rule is, "When in doubt, load it out." Of course the more you carry, the greater a toll it takes on your body, the slower you move, the harder it is to react quickly to a threat.

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#11. can still remember watching the guys drag his body down the stairs. I

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#12. Politics are for the Washington, D.C., policy makers who safely watched the action on a video monitor from thousands of miles away.

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#13. If you think of a special operations team - SEALs, Special Forces, Rangers, and the Air Force Pararescuemen and combat controllers - like a boat, everybody rows.

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#14. I've heard one of my SEAL mentors say that there are rules about bitching. He said everyone has the right to bitch about a mission or job for five minutes. After those five minutes, you shut the fuck up and get to work.

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#15. There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself

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#16. did his yard the other day," the mulch guy said between loads. "There is something big going on, and he's been up in D.C." "What?

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#17. People think SEALs are fearless. Think again. No one lives without fear;

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#18. I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.

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#19. Oh. Momma told me not to tell you that your bed squeaks. But I think you know, 'cause I could hear it this morning. Jake dropped his fork. Tor, for the first time Jake had ever seen, turned scarlet. Maureen looked at them both and sighed. Christmas is always so interesting with you, Mark.

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#20. We were tools in their toolbox, and when things go well they promote it. They inflate their roles.

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#21. The leaders were less willing to fight. It is always the young and impressionable who strap on the explosives and blow themselves up.

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#22. I'd failed my first hooded box test at S&T, but the lesson learned wasn't one I'd forget. Assess, prioritize, and act.

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#23. You always want someone in your professional life who is going to be honest, who's going to call you on your bullshit.

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#24. Shaped like a dagger, it had a jagged edge that was stabbing me in the leg. The metal was so hot that it had melted the foam earplugs that I always stowed in my left pocket.

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#25. Every SEAL has gone through the same training, tested themselves in the same kind of extreme conditions, and typically trained together extensively to the point where we all wind up capable of doing the most basic tasks extraordinarily well.

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#26. It is liberating once you let go of the things that you can't control.

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#27. When you're more experienced and have been in the car crash a million times, and have made mistakes and learned from them, everything slows down and something as small as shoes can stand out.

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#28. Rangers think and plan from the top down. The SEALs think and plan from the bottom up.

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#29. There is no "secret sauce," but there is a lot of hard work, dedication, and drive.

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#30. It was no different than making friends in school or at work. Just be yourself, be open, and be a good houseguest.

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#31. The higher up the food chain the targeted individual was, the bigger a pussy he was.

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#32. I knew he was ready, and we entered the hallway. I shouldered my rifle and squeezed off several rounds to make sure he was down. The

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#33. An insurgency doesn't have to win. It just has to survive.

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#34. Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

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#35. Only focus on your three-foot world," he said. "Focus on what you can affect.

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