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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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think-different
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Walter Isaacson |
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If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, "Bye. I have to go. I'm going crazy and I'm getting out of here." And they go and hibernate ..
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steve-jobs
playboy
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Walter Isaacson |
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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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Walter Isaacson |
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If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It'..
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india
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People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
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Walter Isaacson |
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Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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Walter Isaacson |
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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inspiration
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Walter Isaacson |
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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)
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Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs: I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, " Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't. I think it's 50/50, maybe. But ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more, maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die, it doesn't just all disappear. The wis..
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Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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Walter Isaacson |
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Walter Isaacson |
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You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. "Steve Jobs." Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright."
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Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las fichas redondas en los huecos cuadrados. A los que ven las cosas de forma diferente. A ellos no les gustan las reglas, y no sienten ningun respeto por el statu quo. Puedes citarlos, discrepar de ellos, glorificarlos o vilipendiarlos. Casi lo unico que no puedes hacer es ignorarlos. Porque ellos cambian las cosas. Son los que hacen avanzar al gener..
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think-different
steve-jobs
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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.
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microsoft
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Walter Isaacson |
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if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
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Walter Isaacson |
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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
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Walter Isaacson |
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Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: "A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit"
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Walter Isaacson |
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
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design
simple
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Walter Isaacson |
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Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.
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Walter Isaacson |
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There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
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Walter Isaacson |
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Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that."
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I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.
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Walter Isaacson |
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Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
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steve-jobs
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Walter Isaacson |
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The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,
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Walter Isaacson |
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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Walter Isaacson |
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Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules."
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Form follows emotion
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life
inspirational
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Walter Isaacson |
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Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)"
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music
ipod
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Walter Isaacson |
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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Walter Isaacson |
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He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you."
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The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.
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Walter Isaacson |
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What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th..
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Walter Isaacson |
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for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.
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kiss
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Walter Isaacson |
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I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they're the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.
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Walter Isaacson |
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One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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Walter Isaacson |
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reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.
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Walter Isaacson |
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One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products."
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focus
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Walter Isaacson |
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He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)
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Walter Isaacson |
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never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
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Walter Isaacson |
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On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on."
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Algunas personas proponen: <>. Pero esa no es mi postura. Nuestro trabajo consiste en averiguar que van a querer antes de que lo sepan. Creo que fue Henry Ford quien dijo una vez: <>. La gente no sabe lo que quiere hasta que se lo ensenas. Por eso nunca me he basado en las investigaciones de mercado. N..
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spanish
steve-jobs
español
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Walter Isaacson |
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Above all, Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it--to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.
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Walter Isaacson |
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The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
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Walter Isaacson |