Jason Fried Quotes
I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
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I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
