Jason Fried Quotes

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

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• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Change
  • Me
  • Race

• The only thing you ever have is now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Now
  • Ever

• I don't order laws, I propose them.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Order
  • Laws
  • Them

• I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Love
  • Green

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Actor
  • Rumours

• All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• The media are using a national treasure-that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion
  • Diversity

• Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • History
  • Past
  • Serious

• Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Freedom

• 'Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.'

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Dying

• If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Live
  • Feminist

• The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Live
  • Dance
  • Drama

• You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

  

  Kurt Braunohler

• I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Night

• My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

  

  Jess Walter

• There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Effort
  • Christmas

• The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Stars
  • Humility

• I'm a flirt by nature, and I like flirting with that line of what's passable and what's not, and I genuinely don't believe that I cross it.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Believe
  • Nature

• The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has a lot of coal, you're going to get hammered.

  

  Kevin Hassett

• When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

  

  Jason Fried