Jason Fried Quotes

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• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  

  Florence King
  • Life
  • Women
  • American

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Stop
  • Working

• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • More
  • Accomplish

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated

• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Problem

• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Doing
  • Most
  • Admire

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Thought

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Great
  • Different
  • Fashion

• Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Political

• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Live

• Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.

  

  Jason Fried
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