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.
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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.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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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.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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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.
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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.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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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.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
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Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.
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I am truly my mother's son.
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By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.
