"There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good."

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Robert X. Cringely

#Successful Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.”
“Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.”
“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412
“The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.”
“Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. As soon as I decided that their career was their career and mine was mine and I would have to serve myself, my attitude changed. I'm as normal as you can be in these circumstances.”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
“Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.”

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