Eric Ries Quotes
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
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I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.
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It was wonderful, and it was great of the Braves to invite us back. It's a godsend that there are so many of us that are still around. We had 21. Isn't that wonderful? It was great of the Braves to do it.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
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The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
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Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
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We trained then and I don't think we put a ball down during ball work. A lot of the guys have played before and we've played against each other so much we know how each other plays, so it's not going to be an issue.
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To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.
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I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
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As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
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Physically, men are of the same species; spiritually each is a species apart.
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Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.
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I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.
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Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
