Eric Ries Quotes
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
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I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.
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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
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I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.
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Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
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Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
