Brian Chesky Quotes
The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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What is important is to win.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
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I want my outfit to match my mood.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
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A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
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We have to take care of business at home. These three games at home in a row are crucial for us to get the points and separate us in the table form the rest of the pack, so we need a win.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.
