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• A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Writing, Pieces, Paper

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• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

  Steve Blank

  Organization, Models, Temporary

  Steve Blank (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.77, BookBaby

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• You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Might, Pages

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• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  Irvine Welsh

  Literature, Pages, Enjoy

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• We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

  Michael Shermer

  Eye, Thinking, Games

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• We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

  William T. Wiley

  Kind, Filling, Involved

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Wall, Thinking, White

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• It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Canvas, Fine

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

  Laozi

  New Year, Happy Life, Years

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• Pain has an element of blank

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Elements

  Emily Dickinson (2006). “Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The blank page gives us the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Pages

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

  Douglas Pagels

  Success, New Year, New Day

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• For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

  Shailene Woodley

  Art, Acting, Painting

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• Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

  Amy Adams

  Makeup, Perfect, Interesting

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Friendship, Grandchildren, Talking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Taken, Eye, Vision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.63, Verso

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• Computers make me totally blank out.

  Dalai Lama

  Computer

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers

  Steve Blank

  Firsts, Contact, Plans

  Steve Blank (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.70, BookBaby

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• Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

  Steve Blank

  Prayer, Strategy

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

  Steve Blank

  Tools, Use, Execution

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• The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

  Steve Blank

  Decision, Gains, Advantage

  Steve Blank, Bob Dorf (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.115, BookBaby

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