Jason Fried Quotes
When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.
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When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
