Steve Blank Quotes

Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

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• I loved ninjas when I was younger.

  

  Rain
  • Loved
  • Younger

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
  • Student
  • Anchor

• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Power
  • True

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.

  

  Arthur Helps

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood

• I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Guilty

• I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Hate
  • Cool
  • Hair

• I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Life
  • Hate

• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Strong
  • Opinion

• A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

  

  Loretta Young
  • House

• One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Baseball

• I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • World
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Power
  • Basketball

• Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

  

  John Crowley
  • Life

• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Thinking
  • Quiet

• The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Learn
  • Making Mistakes
  • Reps

• The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • May
  • Holocaust
  • Bystanders

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Death
  • Remembrance

• Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

  

  Steve Blank
  • Prayer
  • Strategy
  • Build