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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Sparks Fly Edition

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Michael Schechter • 2 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes and passages from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com. Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

David Heinemeier Hansson <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Everyone’s habits sound silly and precious to someone else, but if work becomes part of the habit, then your rituals are worthwhile.

Dr. Drang (Hat tip to Gabe Weatherhead) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Henry Miller Quotes

When you can’t create you can work.

Henry Miller (Hat tip to Merlin Mann) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create.

David Tate <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Be comfortable with not being satisfied. If you are a true creator then use that to drive yourself along.

Rob Corddry <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Important Discoveries Edition

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Michael Schechter • 0 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

Jonathan Coulton <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Any place I can find friction, and remove it, is an area of my life or business that I can push closer to my goals.

Aaron Mahnke <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

The greatest opportunity cost you have as a human is not taking your own ideas seriously.

AJ Leon <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

I’m thinking there may be a market in being the guy who helps to un-train you of all the ‘tips’ that the ‘experts’ teach you.

Patrick Rhone (Hat tip to CJ Chilvers) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Your biggest regrets contain a storehouse of wisdom — perhaps some of your most important discoveries — yet you still must dare to explore them.

James Shelley <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Uncommon Sense Edition

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Michael Schechter • 0 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

What I think people call revolution later when successful, at the time just kind of feels like uncommon sense.

Derek Sivers

You do not, as many will tell you, need to grow a thick skin. What you need to do is open yourself to the possibility that you could do better.

Randy Murray <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

David Sparks Mac Sparky Quote

As long as I can remember, I’ve been infatuated with the creative process. The act of transforming some nebulous concept from my mind to something feels like magic and still amazes me every time it happens. Whenever I get in a rut, creating something pulls me out.

David Sparks <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff! (Hat tip to Todd Chandler)

What is writing?

It’s the viscerally wrenching incapacity to decipher your own thoughts into alphabetic form.

It’s the writhing, agonizing frustration that comes from not being able to render or abstract your mind’s vision to a transferable medium.

It’s the brink of enlightenment.

James Shelley <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Crazy Times Edition

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Michael Schechter • 0 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

The only thing more valuable than telling the truth is having a truth to tell.

Patrick Rhone <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

The time has come for you to plan your very own conspiracy. Not against your boss or your company, but against yourself. Against your inner critic who keeps telling you that you can’t make it outside the game of Monopoly that the world handed you. Who keeps telling you that you’re crazy to think you can.

AJ Leon <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

I don’t think we can really inflict simplicity on things, I think what we should have maybe rather than simplicity is a clarity about the purpose of things. So not necessicarily simple in form, but clear in purpose.

Frank Chimero <— Click To Hear More Smart Stuff!

If something isn’t working, start over. Otherwise the goal you’re working towards is saving your work, not solving the problem.

Mike Monteiro <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Stop thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand.

Seth Godin <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The World Changes Edition

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Michael Schechter • 2 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

This is how the world is changed: not sweeping reform, not huge events. It’s changed in the small things we do every day.

Glen Stansberry <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Don’t let fighting the distractions become a distraction.

Stephen M. Hackett <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

If all you ever shoot for is “good enough”, when the world changes around you, you suddenly find that your best isn’t good enough anymore.

Matt Gemmell <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Disruption is the seed of evolution. And innovation its spawn.

Jonathan Fields <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

Seth Godin <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Five Favorites Edition

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Michael Schechter • 1 Comment

As a addendum to “The Final Five” posts of the year, it seemed fitting that I wrap up my five favorites from the Quick Quotes Weekly series. Happy New Year and be on the lookout for more well worded thoughts from really smart people in 2012.

People don’t judge you on the basis of your mistakes—they judge you on the manner in which you own up to them.

Jason Fried <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Seth Godin <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Why are so many people afraid of so many things, but they’re never afraid of mediocrity?

Alex Bogusky and John Winsor <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff! (Affiliate Link)

If you’re not asking the right question, there is no correct answer.

Merlin Mann <— Click To Hear More Smart Stuff!

You can’t get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Bill Withers (Hat tip to Andrew Zuckerman) <— Click To Watch More Smart Stuff!

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Quick Quotes Weekly | The Be Nice Edition

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Michael Schechter • 0 Comments

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah!  Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com.  To spice things up, I plan to share my favorites here each week, all year long!  Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

In this age, the probability that any encounter will be one-off is rapidly approaching zero. Be nice.

Eddie Smith <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

You are programmed to settle in one way or another, and breaking that programming will hurt. Get used to it– it’s the only way to make something exceptional.

Julien Smith <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Get to wokr. If you love something, want to be come an artist, go and hook up wiht those who are already doing it. Study. Get training, do it. Suck a lot, but get better - Randy Murray

Get to work. If you love something, want to become an artist, go and hook up with those who are already doing it. Study, get training, do it. Suck a lot, but get better.

Randy Murray (Hat tip to Todd Chandler) <— Click To See More Smart Stuff!

Records are set by the people who said fuck your limits and found their own.

David Heinemeier Hansson <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

We don’t need to be nice, but we do need to be kind.

Frank Chimero <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

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