Jason Fried Quotes

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Society
  • Kind
  • Conspiracy

• The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Party
  • Religious
  • Violence

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • You
  • Try

• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Good Things

• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Details

• Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Great
  • Career
  • Childhood

• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Opinion

• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• In electronic publishing, they're are no editors and if their are there not very good.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good

• I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

  

  Alan Watts
  • People
  • American

• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Summer

• I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Wish
  • Him
  • I Wish

• The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun - the more debauched, the better.

  

  James St. James
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Balls
  • Income
  • Knives

• By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

  

  Jason Fried