Scott Berkun Quotes - Page 2

• It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

  Scott Berkun

  Fun, Advice, Useless

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

  Scott Berkun

  Passion, Ideas, Worry

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• For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.

  Scott Berkun

  Song, Strong, Kings

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• It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

  Scott Berkun

  Shoes, Would Be, Safe

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.35, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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