Steve Blank Quotes
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
Quotes to Explore
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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Moral solipsism.
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I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
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I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.
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When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
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I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
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I moved out of home when I was 15.
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Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
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A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
