Aileen Lee Quotes
What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.
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God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."
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I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
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I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.
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I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
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What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.
