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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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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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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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
