Brad Feld Quotes
I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
