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		When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clara Shih 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Hacking 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Efron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felicity Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. Flay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Floyd Skloot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Padmasree Warrior 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mal Peet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mandy Patinkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Huey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Lencioni 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. J. P. Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Neugebauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll always be poor in my mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chet Atkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Salinger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clara Shih