Jason Fried Quotes
If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
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If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.
