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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I like to prove people wrong.
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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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I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.
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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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One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
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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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Every past is worth condemning.
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There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
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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.
