Eric Ries Quotes
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.
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Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.
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A good title is a work of a genius!
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The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
