Nir Eyal Quotes
Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
Quotes to Explore
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
