Kevin Kelly Quotes

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

Kevin Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 14, 1952

Topics

BestStopSometimesProductGet

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

Ann Patchett

TeacherJobBadKnowDoneNever

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Amy Poehler

MotherExperienceDayAmazingYou

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Sophocles

AloneVirtueRewardsSecureAbide

Northern Wisconsin, where I'm from, is so ridiculously rural.

Trixie Mattel

RuralWhereWisconsinNorthern

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Rob Lowe

CultureYouKnowUpShootMidwest

Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

MotherMemoriesPathChildMeYears

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

Roma Maffia

PeopleMeBlackEnoughYouGo

I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

Russell Smith

I AmWorldSickWayMoreImprove

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

Joshua Jackson

OpportunityTimeLongLong TimeBeen

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Della Reese

WorkPeopleSpiritualityAlso

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

David Simon

PeopleStoryCareYouGoMatter

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

Aubrey O'Day

GirlMeThinkYouAnythingSeen

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