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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. ”
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. ”
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ”
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. ”
A sniper's primary goal is to eliminate ground threats for U.S. guys on the ground. Is that what a coward is? A person whose goal is to save the lives of his warrior brothers? ”
It doesn't matter how big of a company you have: I always tell people that you are one job away from being broke. And if you don't live that way, you'll be broke. ”
Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk. ”
My entire goal in life is to try and change the world. ”
If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table. ”
I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts. ”