Eric Ries Quotes

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • High
  • Successful
  • Facts

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Up
  • Success
  • Fall

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Music
  • Ideas

• I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Obsessed
  • Top
  • Chef

• It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Me
  • Change

• I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Image

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Myself
  • Crazy
  • Wise

• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Want
  • Desire

• There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Standards
  • Promises

• The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Me
  • Holocaust
  • Jews

• I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Important
  • Day

• No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Culture
  • Military
  • Service

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  

  Eric Ries
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