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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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
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Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.
