Jason Fried Quotes
It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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The women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
