David F. D'Alessandro Quotes
Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
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Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
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Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
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When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.
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Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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They really capitalize on the fact that we are the first (in the nation primary). It is ridiculous.
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There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.
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I've been a freelancer my whole life. It's sort of been my ethos that wherever something takes me, it takes me, so, that was really the start of me trying my hand at whatever it was at the time. I've gone from doing sculpture to videos to being a set builder and working for a general contractor to jewelry maker to now, a rapper... I just love to create. I've had a stint doing pretty much everything! It sort of doesn't matter what it is, as long as I'm doing it. I love to see something from conception to final product. I love trying new things and seeing them through.
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There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
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As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
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Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.
