Jason Fried Quotes
You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
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It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough.
