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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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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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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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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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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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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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 try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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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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You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.
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On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.
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The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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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.
