Nir Eyal Quotes
Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
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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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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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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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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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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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In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
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The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
