January 2009
16 posts
WatchZe Frank on ideas.
I like what he says about how someone who does something badly three times still has three times the experience of someone who hasn’t acted on an idea.
“Race car drivers get all the glamor. You don’t see people lining up down the...”
– SEO Theory
“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive...”
– Karletto Marx, 1867 (via umanesimo)
Damn. The guy calls it all the way from back in 1867. That’s nuts.
EDIT: Shoot, it’s a fake quote. Karl Marx fake quote
WatchAwesome WoW video. No, I don’t play (not for a long time, at least).
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“I am disappointed at people who hesitate to start something important because...”
– Seth Godin
He’s right. It’s seldom an issue of knowing enough. More likely, though, is that people are afraid. I know that’s how it is for me a lot of the time. I hesitate to start new things because I’m afraid someone will point out my inexperience, or find a hole in my...
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“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation...”
– Sterling Hayden, from his autobiography The Wanderer
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“Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.”
– C. Northcote Parkinson
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teddy roosevelt quotes
President Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as having said … “Start where you stand with the tools that you have; better tools will be found as you go along.” and … “If they ask you if you can do a thing, tell them, ‘Certainly I can!’ and then get busy and find out how to do it!”
Two great bits of advice. Start where you are, with what you have, and...
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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Buddha
