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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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 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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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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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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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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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.
