Jason Fried Quotes
When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Passion without focus can lead you astray.
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American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
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I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
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When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
