Stewart Butterfield (Daniel Stewart Butterfield) Quotes
I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.'
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.
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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
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I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
