Eric Ries Quotes
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?
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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
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You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff.
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Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
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Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.
