Eric Ries Quotes

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

Eric Ries

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Remember
  • Man
  • White

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Young

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Attention

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Color

• It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Men
  • High

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Mother

• We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Trust

• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  

  Chris O'Dowd

• If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

  

  Leon Blum
  • Reality
  • Ideal
  • Realm

• The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Challenges
  • Opportunities

• Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Real
  • Emotional
  • Self

• Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Happiness
  • Act
  • Defiance

• When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Reality
  • Idea
  • Shower