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You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.
— Jason Fried
One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
— Jason Fried
You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.
— Jason Fried
Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
— Jason Fried
Keeping a solid team together for a long time is a key to peak performance. People grow closer and more comfortable with each other, and consequently do even better work. Meanwhile, rookie teams make rookie mistakes.
— Jason Fried
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
— Edith Wharton
The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
— Edith Wharton
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.
— Michael Jordan
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
— Scott Moir
When you're given a platform, and you're allowed to perform, and someone's there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that's a nice feeling.
— Florence Pugh
I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
— Florence Pugh
The role of Kaya, which I played in 'Dil Kabaddi,' is very close to my heart as I am also a fitness freak.
— Payal Rohatgi