Brian Chesky Quotes
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I don't like allegories.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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In the denial of disorder there is order.
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Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
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I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
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If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
