38 quotes found
Author · American · 1987
American author (born 1987)
“Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut.”
“Youre not as good as you think. You dont have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.”
“You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.”
“Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.”
“When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.”
“You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.”
“Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.”
“Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.”
“The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to g...”
“This is a fundamental irony of most peoples lives. They dont quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.”
“Not me, you think.”
“The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embe...”
“It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Socc...”
“At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months ...”
“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”
“There is another apt Latin expression: Materiam superabat opus. (The workmanship is better than the material.) The material we've been given genetically, emotionally, financially, that's where we b...”
“You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expec...”
“When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops ...”
“Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile a...”
“Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or we...”
“Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.”
“Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you th...”