“What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.”
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People Quotes — page 925 of 5018
“The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission”
“Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.”
“Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.”
“Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.”
“I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.”
“All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.”
“One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.”
“In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.”
“If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.”
“Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.”
“Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.”
“What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.”
“Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.”
“Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.”
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.”
“The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.”
“Competent people are the most resistant to change”
“You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.”
“Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.”