Drew Houston Quotes

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Drew Houston

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SchoolMistakeWorldEnoughYouNow

When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

Jennifer Grey

HappyYouthFaceBodyPerfectFar

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

Andra Day

MusicWritingSongGoTryPop

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Robert Smith

ThoughtGuitarMy OwnFabulousFirst

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

EducationBetterCommon SenseWithout

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

Amanda Palmer

BusinessArtCloudShameSeenBeing

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

PeopleMeDesignMeaningNothing

There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there's no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you're the one who ends up looking like a jerk.

Travis Bradberry

LookingYouNeedOutPointUp

The serious professional skateboarder doesn't have a job. They get paid enough not to.

Rob Dyrdek

JobEnoughProfessionalSeriousPaid

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Djimon Hounsou

CultureManPeopleUnderstanding

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

Chazz Palminteri

Mafia

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

LovePowerEyesGreatLookMean

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Clyde Edgerton

LifeMusicTogetherPeopleMy Life

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