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Merlin Mann Quotes: Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.
         

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.


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Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.



Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.



Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.



Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.



Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.



People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.



Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.



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

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



Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.



I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.





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He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.



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When a man opens the car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.



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When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.



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I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

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The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.



He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.



Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.




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