Jason Fried Quotes

In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Perfect

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Good
  • Simple

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Anger
  • Loneliness
  • Insecurity

• The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Travel
  • End

• Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

  

  Charles Trevelyan
  • Today

• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Comparison
  • Unbearable
  • Lightness

• I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Really
  • Left
  • Japan

• It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre

• In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Cutting