Daniel Burrus Quotes

There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

Daniel Burrus

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• I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Own

• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Children
  • Honor

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Hope
  • Going
  • Greece

• Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Look

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • America
  • How

• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Food
  • Child
  • Fly

• I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Way
  • Service
  • Used

• I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Visual

• You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Fear

• It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • World
  • Advantage
  • Nigeria

• Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Talent
  • Advantage
  • Conflict

• There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

  

  Daniel Burrus
  • Advantage
  • Everyone
  • Competitive