„What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.“

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— Walter Isaacson, buch Steve Jobs

Quelle: Steve Jobs

Letzte Aktualisierung 7. Oktober 2021.

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US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1952

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— Cherie Priest, buch Boneshaker

Quelle: Boneshaker (2009), p. 265

„They have […] a split personality. One moment they’re your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. […] It’s just astonishing.“

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— Lewis Pugh Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer 1969

p 65, describing leopard seals off Antarctica
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

„The vast majority of people eat animal products not because of how they’re produced, but in spite of it.“

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— Jacy Reese American social scientist 1992

The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System (2018)

„They’re turning me into the Queen of England.“

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— Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955

On 22 June 2019 https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/national-politics/bolsonaro-says-congress-seeks-to-turn-him-into-the-queen-of-england/, about the Congress. Democracy Bedevils Brazil’s President Bolsonaro https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-01/democracy-bedevils-brazil-s-bolsonaro. Bloomberg (1 July 2019).

„She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.“

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— Alastair Reynolds, buch Redemption Ark

Quelle: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 34 (p. 628)

„The ‘good 10 percent’ of American products comes out of big-idea organizations that don’t believe in talking to the customer. They’re run by passionate maniacs who make everybody's life miserable until they get what they want.“

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— Bran Ferren American technologist 1953

Quoted by Tom Peters, in Design Mindfullness, September 8, 2013 http://www.tompeters.com/docs/Design.pdf,

„Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.“

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— Jodi Picoult, buch Handle With Care

Variante: Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
Quelle: Handle with Care

„There’s an editor for you.
They’re all the same. At first they’re all honey and sweet talk, with those long alcoholic lunches and blue-sky conversation about million-copy printings while they wheedle you into signing the contract. Then they turn nasty. They want the actual book delivered. When they don’t get it, or when the censors say they can’t print it, then there isn’t any more sweet talk and all the conversation is about how the aediles will escort you to debtors’ prison.“

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— Frederik Pohl American science fiction writer and editor 1919 - 2013

Waiting for the Olympians (p. 257)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

„Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they’re not doing it right you’ve got to speak up and show them and if you still don’t get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.“

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— Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Q&A at the L5 Convention, Blackpool, UK (16 November 2008) http://www.jennifer-beals.com/reports/L5.html

„You have a knack for turning your eyes inside out, so you see them. And they see you. And you're afraid, because they’re from the uncreated future, from a place, I think, where the human race has reached its last incarnation, from the end of the material world. Perhaps the end of all worlds. And they’re sad—melancholy is the better word—because you're like an angel to them, the angel of the past, the angel of infinite possibility. Possibility lost. The road not taken.“

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— Robert Charles Wilson author 1953

The Observer (p. 111)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

„They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they’re happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.“

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— James Richardson American poet 1950

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

„Respect the hustler for they’re doing great jobs and they never rest more.“

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— Ayuel Monykuch South Sudanese Entrepreneur 1997

„I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school … Technical high school, that’s where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, “You can do anything you want.” Their whole lives. “You can do anything!” But this place, we take kids – they’re 15, they’re young – and we tell them, “You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.”“

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— Louis C.K. American comedian and actor 1967

http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-annotated-wisdom-of-louis-c-k/

„You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.“

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— François Lelord French writer 1953

„So, first of all, you’ve got to try to get people involved. And a lot of people are busy in their own lives or they don’t think it’s going to make a difference or they’re scared if they’re speaking out against authority. And many of the problems that we’re facing, like trying to create jobs or better opportunity or dealing with poverty or dealing with the environment, these are problems that have been going on for decades. And so, to think that somehow you’re going to change it in a day or a week, and then if it doesn’t happen you just give up, well, then you definitely won’t succeed. So the most important thing that I learned as a young person trying to bring about change is you have to be persistent, and you have to get more people involved, and you have to form relationships with different groups and different organizations. And you have to listen to people about what they’re feeling and what they’re concerned about, and build trust. And then, you have to try to find a small part of the problem and get success on that first, so that maybe from there you can start something else and make it bigger and make it bigger, until over time you are really making a difference in your community and in that problem. But you can’t be impatient. And the great thing about young people is they’re impatient. The biggest problem with young people is they’re impatient. It’s a strength, because it’s what makes you want to change things. But sometimes, you can be disappointed if change doesn’t happen right away and then you just give up. And you just have to stay with it and learn from your failures, as well as your successes.“

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— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall (April 2014)

„Healthy striving is about striving for internal goals, and wanting to be our best selves. Perfectionism is not motivated internally. Perfectionism is about what people will think. And you do not see effective leaders in corporations sitting on an email for three hours to make sure it’s worded just perfectly. You don’t. They have work to get done.. You don’t see elite athletes letting themselves be discouraged by a bad workout or a single bad performance. It happens all the time. They’re accustomed to winning, they’re accustomed to losing. Once perfectionism becomes the goal, they’re out of the sport.“

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— Brené Brown US writer and professor 1965

Washington Post, October 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/exhaustion-is-not-a-status-symbol/2012/10/02/19d27aa8-0cba-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story_2.html
Quelle: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

„Whatever you do will change the world. If you take the most default option, you follow the most mainstream, down the line, ‘just keep your head down and get on with what they’re telling you to do’, approach, then that’s the world that you’re helping to create. There is no way that you can not change the world.“

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— Shaun Chamberlin

Kosmos interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism (2014) http://www.darkoptimism.org/2014/12/21/dark-optimism-power-of-grief/#post-4075

„When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.“

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— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Quelle: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

„They choose what you’re watching and you don’t mind
They choose what you’re watching ‘cause they’re so kind
They choose what you’re watching and you don’t mind
Dunno what you’re watching and you don’t mind“

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— Dhani Harrison English musician 1978

Choose what you’re watching
Lyrics, You Are Here (2008)

„Google’s more powerful than any government now – people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re going to turn against us.“

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— M.I.A. British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director 1975

Quote reprinted http://www.nme.com/photos/in-her-own-words-mias-20-sharpest-quotes/172930/16/4#11 in NME
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„What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.“

Walter Isaacson1

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