Eric Ries Quotes

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

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• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Enjoy
  • Building
  • More

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Problem
  • Youth

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Every film is hard to fund.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Fund

• Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Own
  • Just Because

• I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Earth
  • Words
  • Jesus

• Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Armies
  • Abolished

• Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Happening
  • Anywhere
  • Queensland

• Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Glory
  • Gentle

• I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Music
  • Success
  • Influence

• I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Transferring

• Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Forever
  • Creation
  • Counts

• Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

  

  Cornell Capa
  • Powerful
  • Mirror
  • Actions

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like Heathers.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Movies
  • Favorites
  • Heathers

• We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy

• If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Copy
  • Toast
  • Iterate