Jason Fried Quotes

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

Jason Fried

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Also

• Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Mind
  • Girls
  • Straightforward

• The problem of experiences is not limited to the interpretation of sense-impressions.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

  

  Albio Sires
  • Real
  • America
  • Health

• Don't take things too seriously.

  

  Bruce Oldfield

• There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Work
  • Book
  • Friend

• Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

  

  Martin Donovan
  • Night
  • Party
  • Sleep

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

  John Eaton
  • Drama
  • Greek

• So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

  

  Bernard Cornwell

• The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

  

  James Baldwin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

  

  Martin Mull
  • Music
  • Helping
  • Romantic

• And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Women
  • Remember
  • War

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Time
  • Live
  • Real

• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Deadline

• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Character
  • Science
  • Existence

• A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Combination
  • Deadline
  • Scope