Jason Fried Quotes

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • More
  • View

• We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Make
  • Navigate
  • Maze

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Looking Forward

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Music
  • Poetry

• I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Script

• It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Now
  • Clear
  • Major

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Service

• I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fight

• My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it's a 10-hour day, they're leaving at 5. You don't go to 5:30, 6, 7. No. And then we had a fest for everything.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Leaving

• If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Age
  • Aging
  • Disability

• Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

  

  Jason Fried