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- A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.
- Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
- We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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