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 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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Chapter Six, The Question of Identity
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It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.
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Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
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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.
