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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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
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Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.
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Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
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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.
