Jason Fried Quotes
When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.
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Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.
