J. Maarten Troost Quotes
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
Quotes to Explore
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.
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Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
