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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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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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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I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.
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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
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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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The world needs some excitement from fashion.
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
