Eric Ries Quotes
When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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Combining technology and fashion shouldn't be about PR gimmicks - they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.
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The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
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The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
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I think the regulations are very tough, but I think they could be made tougher. And where they really have to be made tougher is when somebody is proven to be dishonest, not a mistake, not an honest mistake because look, people make bad business deals all the time. When somebody is proven to be dishonest, really harsh punishment has to take place.
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Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
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When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.
