Ben Chestnut Quotes

Don't worry about big ideas, keep making stuff. Build little things, build prototypes, make sketches.

Ben Chestnut

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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Carly Fiorina
- People
- World
- May
My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

Lapo Elkann
- Ideas
- Independent
- Old
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

Aaron D. O'Connell
- Focus
- Ideas
- Doing
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

Walker Stapleton
- People
- Good
- Ideas
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

Daniel Boulud
- Night
- Ideas
- Internet
It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

Banks
- People
- Amazing
- Ideas