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- In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
- Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
- See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
- People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. - Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
- Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
- Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
- More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 04-18-06
- My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.
- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
- The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
- Louis I Kahn
- Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
- Aaron Douglas Trimble
- Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
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