"Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present."

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Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”

Asa Gray

#Causes Quotes #Theory Quotes #Refreshing Quotes

“There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.”
“A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...”
“Stop spending your time; start investing your time.”
“For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.”
“The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.”
“In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.”

Source : Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.32, BookBaby
“I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.”
“History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.”

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