Ben Casnocha Quotes

#1. Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

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#2. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

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#3. I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

Ian Christe

#4. If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you're not accomplishing very much.

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#5. I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Phil Knight

#6. Socially, segregation labeled African Americans as less than human; the term "boy" itself, applied to the Scottsboro defendants even as they became elderly, implied that they were less than men.

James W. Loewen

#7. It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

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#8. Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

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#9. I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

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#10. The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

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#11. Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

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#12. Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

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#13. The Lady smiled, close-mouthed. "You magicked for Arthur himself, Merlin. The Human part of you has always loved Arthur.

Anne Eliot Crompton

#14. I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

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#15. I need a visa in almost 38 countries, which means an American has more access into Africa than myself.

Aliko Dangote

#16. Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

S.A. Tawks

#17. Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

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#18. I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

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#19. Your Kindle Voyage has an onscreen keyboard. When you tap within the Search field or begin other

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#20. Behind all of your stories, is your mother's story, because hers is where yours began

Emily T. Wierenga

#21. A man is saved only by faith ... only by faith.

Paul Washer

#22. I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

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#23. If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation ... People have been very good at being politically correct.

Robert David Hall

#24. I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

Harold Prince

#25. I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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#26. I'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

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#27. Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

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#28. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten ... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

Kurt Vonnegut