Eric Ries Quotes
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
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The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
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We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
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If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
