Jason Fried Quotes
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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I have 14 nieces and nephews.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.
