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The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't. Jimmy Doolittle

War You Win First Lose Lesson Air Command

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months. Jimmy Page

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Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup. Jocko Willink

Day Morning Every Day Training Discipline Three First Every Starts Respected Say Battery Feared Powered Most Instructor Because Off Clock Goes Taught Electric Seal Alarm

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time. Jocko Willink

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All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first. Joe Gibbs

Character People Will Thought College First Country Right People Out About Pick Learned Always Got Coming Lot Very Scouts Trying Want Us Successful Hard Who Teams Traveling Right

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of. Joel Osteen

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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer. John Burroughs

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor. John Coltrane

Time Listening First Young Horn Records Featured Count Tenor Since Alto Got Real Been Influence Which Lester Early

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. John Henrik Clarke

Me History Learning First Become Own Worried Kind Spirit About Blacks Clay Feel Town Southern Subscribed Being Different Wanted Land Different Kind Farmer Teaching Daddy Alabama Bones

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. John Henrik Clarke

World Light First Civilizations Were Human Africa Human Consciousness Consciousness

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. John Marshall

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. John McCain

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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite. John Muir

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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. John Ortberg

Life People Fear Made First Longing Fall Go Away Our Inside Throughout Never Weird Know Also Known Got Still Go Were Exist Cultures Human After Us Across Deep Deep Inside Now Away Deepest

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike

Marriage Adultery First Breath Constraints Develop After

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind. John Waters

You Change People Mind First Believe Laugh Never Step Talk Make Him First Step Person Getting Listen Politically Should Agree

A savory chef must first master his knife skills and understand the basics of sauces and soups, etc., before he/she may move on to become a great chef. It is no different for pastry chefs. If you do not have a strong foundation and are a master of the basics, then you will never be that strong - you will never be a master of the trade - period. Johnny Iuzzini

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Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. Josh McDowell

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This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. Judy Davis

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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. Julius Charles Hare

You Intelligence Better First Step Toward First Step Becoming Than

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