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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
― Tyra Banks

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”
― Phillip C. McGraw

“Read everything and be kind.”
― Penn Jillette

“Keep it simple, stupid”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Artists work best alone. Work alone.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

“Someone started taking notes, Steve said, 'You don't need to takes notes. If it's important, you'll remember it'.”
― Leander Kahney, Inside Steve's Brain

“The thing is, it’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”
― Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

“if there’s not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you’d like to believe it is.”
― Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

“nothing is left to chance; everything must be deeply considered.”
― Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products

“following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do”
― Leander Kahney, Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

“He thought it essential for youngsters to develop tenacity “so there’s never an idle moment”
― Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

“You either did or you didn't - there is no try. - Steve Jobs.”
― Adam Lashinsky, Inside Apple -- From Steve Jobs Down to the Janitor: How America's Most Successful—and Most Secretive—Big Company Really Works

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”
― Ken Segall, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

“Maxims

If you work harder and look more closely, there's always something you can whittle away. It's when you get to the essence of your idea that you'll have something to be proud of. 196

Blunt is Simplicity. Meandering is Complexity. 13

The simplest way isn't always the easiest. 2

You can't let yourself be talked into going along with something when you know there's something better. Ever. 15

Apple encourages big thinking but small everything else. 25

Simplicity's best friend: Small groups of smart people. 26

Great ideas travel with a degree of risk. 39

Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff. ~ Steve Jobs's advice to Nike. 51

The less the merrier. 54

Simplicity never stands till. 70

To accomplish great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein, 72

Aim realistically high. 72

Never stop moving. 73

As long as you've got new ideas to share, you are free to re-present the old ones. 110

Simplicity gains power through brevity. 133

Simplicity is in a hurry. 134

Simplicity has universal appeal. 161

It's really hard to design things by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ~ Steve Jobs, 164

Take advice, not orders. 166

So it must become your nature never to relent. You never want to come out even, because in this game a tie goes to Complexity. 192”
― Ken Segall, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”
― Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive

“Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Fail often, fail fast,”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Focus means saying "no." Jobs focuses Apple's limited resources on a small number of projects it can execute well.”
― Leander Kahney, Inside Steve's Brain