Jeff Weiner Quotes
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
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I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
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Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
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Some people have called the book the 'bible of software engineering'. I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.
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Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.
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I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
