"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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Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

Ben Casnocha

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.”
“In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.”
“His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.”
“I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He often seems to give the blessing of a special sensitivity to the influence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, especially in marriage and family matters like raising children. Such spiritual sensitivity can help us enjoy the blessings of harmony and peace in the home.”

Source : Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.60, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”
“The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.”
“[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.”

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