Jason Fried Quotes

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

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• I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Harder

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Body

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Best

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Book
  • Cool
  • Fake

• I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Relationship

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

  

  Jim Leyland
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.

  

  John Robinson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Real

• When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Guy