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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I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.
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I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
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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.
