Eric Ries Quotes
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Quotes to Explore
-
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
-
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
-
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.
-
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
-
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
-
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
-
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
-
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.
-
There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
-
I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
I'm obsessed with '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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
-
Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
-
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
-
I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
-
I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.
-
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
