Jason Fried Quotes

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Food
  • Person

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Today

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Same
  • Movement

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sad

• I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Kind
  • Same
  • Heroes

• You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Country
  • Help

• The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices-we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.

  

  Peter Drucker

• I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Time
  • Bored

• I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Mother
  • France

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

  

  Jason Fried
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