Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
BIZ STONEEven though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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People first. Technology second.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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