A Quote by James Stockdale

In order to do something you must be something. — © James Stockdale
In order to do something you must be something.
The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.
You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.
Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.
In order to be something, you must do something.
One must be something, in order to do something.
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.
Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
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