To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
I won the 2011 Visa Championships, the 2012 Pacific Rims, and then the 2013 American Cup (the first and only senior elite competition of my elite career).
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.
I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.
In a bar, you never know what to expect. A place could be packed, but there might only be five girls there.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini or mushrooms, thinly sliced meats like chicken or pork, or thinly sliced fish or squid.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.
The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.