Eric Ries Quotes

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Forever

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Game
  • Matter
  • Ourselves

• I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Research
  • Grateful

• In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prepare

• My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career.

  

  David Nail
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Hope

• We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Action

• NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Good
  • Done
  • Science

• God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?

  

  Beth Moore
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Reading is good, action is better.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Good
  • Action
  • Reading