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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.
- Duress
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- Nov 07, 2020
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
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- Nov 07, 2020