Fred Wilson Quotes

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

Fred Wilson

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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Jazz

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Eye

• The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Movies

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Good
  • Taken

• It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Control

• It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Money
  • Help
  • Giving

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business