Derek Sivers Quotes
A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.
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I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
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It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'
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I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.
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A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
