Tobias Lutke Quotes

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

Tobias Lutke

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SuccessSmartPeopleBuildingWay

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Jock Sturges

MePersonDesireShameLastWho

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Jennifer Beals

CharacterUnderstandUpBeingWell

Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

John Ortberg

WomenChurchEarlyFirstWomen Are

Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.

Amandla Stenberg

Growing UpGameBlackFindGrowing

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

Trip Lee

SongCompromiseWantNeverAnything

We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.

Tom Perez

LaborOwnAgreementCoreLawsWould

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

Lloyd Kaufman

MeFilmmakingMy OwnUniversityOwn

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

Lisa Lutz

Working TogetherTogetherPeopleIdea

Marvin Gaye was a friend of mine, and he used to say, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you - if I could have that growl in my voice.' And I said, 'Man, are you kidding me? I want to sing like you. Everybody wants to sing like you.'

Dennis Edwards

FriendManMeVoiceWishYou

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Corliss Lamont

KnowledgeIntuitionCannotDoes

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

LiveMoving OnPastMindTryingNew

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

Brandon Thomas

HappySomeoneHandsYouKnowThree

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