“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” ThreeProcessStepsConditionsProductsCreatingOrganizationExtremesExperimentsUncertaintyOutcomesSomething NewDedicatedCreating Something Author:Eric Ries
“Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.” ThinkingWantHelpingHappensSidesConditionsPositive ThinkingCreatingGood Things Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.” LongIdeasFactsMoralConditionsCreatingSanctionsChaoticColonists Author:Bernard Bailyn
“The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.” SoulProblemBodyCausesConditionsKeysCreatingThriveProvidingMedication Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.
“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.” PlayStoriesRunningUniverseInterestingSeeingConditionsStageCreatingCastsTinyExperimentsLaboratoryTheatricalImposing Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“Fight only after creating conditions for victory.” ArtMotivationalSuccessFightingConditionsVictoryCreatingPreparationMartial Arts Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.” WorldWayKindDifferentSometimesEarthFormCertainGroupsConditionsMaterialsCreatingPatternsArchitectureAuthenticityRelevantNobilityScarceTextilesMaterialityHybridity Author:David Adjaye
“Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.” DoeSelfMomentsHelpingConditionsDivineCreatingSlaveGuidesSelf CenteredDivine Nature Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.” IfsDoeAsksHoursConditionsHonestyCreatingMajorsCustomersCorporationsEmployeeGoodsCeoWorking Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .” MindKindStatesMightFallSpecialConditionsDutyCreatingAddPhotographerActiveState Of MindBlankTruckReceptiveCurbBumperFalling OffSpecial Times Author:Minor White
“Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet.” StillsQualityConditionsChangedPlanetsMaterialsRevolutionCreatingStandardsPossessionQuality Of LifeStandards Of LivingHigh QualityHigh StandardsIndustrial RevolutionMaterial Possessions Author:Joseph R. Dominguez
“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.” WantTryingIdeasHappensForceConditionsDesignParticularCreatingOutcomes Author:Toby Hemenway
“I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.” ShouldWellsStrongWealthCommonWorryHappenedConditionsEffectsTheoryCreatingEconomicsCurrentsExtremesPhysicsMathematicalAcademicReversePuzzlesEconomistRecessionsPhdsAppraise Author:Charlie Munger
“Our government's providing record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government is committed to creating the conditions that will allow entrepreneurship to thrive in this country. The collaboration between colleges and local industrial partners generates new products and ideas, creating long-term prosperity for the benefit of all Canadians.” LongIdeasCountryGovernmentJobsTermQualityRecordsConditionsCollegeProductsBenefitsCreatingInvestmentCommittedProsperityPartnersBoundariesLocalsEntrepreneurshipLong TermThriveCollaborationProvidingQuality Of LifeNew Products Author:Ed Holder
“You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.” NeedsDoeStatesEnoughKidsCultureFocusTeacherConditionsPolicyCreatingStability Author:Pedro Noguera
“We have established the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union not by force, but through a compromise. It was a challenging, complicated, multi-year process based on agreement, compromise and mutually acceptable conditions in the hope of creating for our economies and for our people better competitive advantages in the world markets and in the world as a whole.” PeopleWorldYearsWholeForceProcessChallengesEconomyEconomicConditionsCreatingAdvantageUnionsComplicatedCompromiseAgreementCustomsAcceptableCompetitive Advantage Author:Vladimir Putin