Top 22 David Heinemeier Quotes
#1. If you have substructure and courage change your thoughts and, you change your life. If you have change your life and, change others life.
Mehmet Kececi
#2. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#3. Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#4. Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#5. We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.
Jamie Oliver
#7. It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene
Don Kelly
#8. I decided to make memorizing a part of my daily routine. Like flossing. Except I was actually going to do it.
Joshua Foer
#9. Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#10. There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#11. If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?
David Heinemeier Hansson
#12. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'
David Heinemeier Hansson
#15. My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that's amazing," he explains. "It's certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#17. The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Ken Kesey
#18. If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?
Emily Carr
#19. Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
Al Gore
#21. If you will change everything will change for you. Don't wait for things to change. Change doesn't start out there, change starts within ... All change starts with you.
Jim Rohn
#22. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
Paul Collins
