Jason Fried Quotes

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

Jason Fried

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MotivationMeetingsToo MuchSpice

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

Joel Osteen

HomeParentsThinkSometimesPlaces

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

GoodActionInevitableMarkAppears

At its core, 'Spring Awakening' is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.

Michael Arden

SpringPeopleVoiceCoreHappens

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

Amitabh Bachchan

PoliticsPeopleMeYouCountryNow

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

Stacy Keach

HurtCareerPossibleDidSelection

I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

Summer Glau

TimeDanceJobCrazyFreeWeek

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

Michelle Obama

WorkLoveGoodCutePeopleTreat

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

Michael Landon

FatherMeFeelingsPresencePaper

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Dolly Parton

TimePeopleThinkFeelRememberYou

My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.

Woody Hayes

FootballFightSchoolBrotherFarm

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Pratyusha Banerjee

PowerCorruptionDownPartyMatter

It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.

Maria Shriver

LifePassionHeartPurposePeople

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