Joe Gebbia Quotes
How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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There is a hotline that runs from the college students to their high school buddies.
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When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.
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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
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Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
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How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
