Merlin Mann Quotes - Page 2

• People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

  Merlin Mann

  Stupid, People, Suffering

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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

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  People, Sms, Literacy

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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• Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

  Merlin Mann

  Phones, Play, Produce

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• Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

  Merlin Mann

  Being Yourself, Good Luck, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.

  Merlin Mann

  Block, People, Trying

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• People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

  Merlin Mann

  Inspiration, People, Posters

  "Back to Work" podcast, Episode 5,

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• Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

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  Writing, Excuse, Distraction

  "Like Hammers". "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2012.

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• A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

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  Priorities

  " Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities" by Merlin Mann, www.43folders.com. April 28, 2009.

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• If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

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  Needs, May, Lists

  Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies, twitter.com. July 29, 2008.

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• Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

  Merlin Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Games

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• Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

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  Tornadoes, Cold, Good Work

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• All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

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  Buddhism, Self, Helping

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• Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment.

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  Addresses, Opinion, Internet

  "KungFu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2010.

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• Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

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  Creative, Stopping, Each Day

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2008

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• If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

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  Want, Cows, Break

  "Roderick On The Line" podcast, 5by5 Studios, October 2011.

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• Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

  Merlin Mann

  America, Needs, Need You

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2008

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• I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.

  Merlin Mann

  Pain, Thinking, Topics

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• By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

  Merlin Mann

  Coffee, Ironic, Mosaics

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