Jason Fried Quotes
When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.
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When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
