“You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.” PeopleWorldWayWantBelieveLawCultureLanguageCan DoMillionsImagineProductsFineSafeOkayBoringTrappedTrapsWant UCradleMolecules Book:Invisible Monsters Remix Source: Invisible Monsters Remix
“I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.” PeopleThinkingChildrenWarMillionsStreetsOkayJust OneChildren Playing Author:Asne Seierstad
“I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.” WorldYearsFirstsDonePassionFoundFeltAcceptingMillionsFiveTenComputerOkayGreenScreensFive YearsJapanTraveledExplainingTranslatorsTokyoDell Author:Drew Waters
“Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.” LittlesArtMillionsFineOkayPaintBrushesDotsMonetPollockKandinsky Author:Patrick Wilson
“I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.” PeopleLooksLittlesI CanGirlFightingMillionsFailingBattleEatingStandingOkayLook UpDisorderEating DisorderNot Okay Author:Whitney Thompson
“Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Look. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, 'McDonalds: We're Doing Very Well.' We are tired of hearing about every goddamn one of them."” WellsLooksStillsCareNumbersCompanyMillionsOkayTiredHearingBillionsSatisfiedImpressedCeoInsecureWho CaresCountingMcdonaldsHamburgers Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.” KnowsYearsHelpingGovernmentThreeMillionsOkayPrioritiesDisasterSavingBudgetsThree Years Author:Bill Gates
“Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsKindMadeHelpingWantedRealizingMistakeCareersMillionsAdviceSkillsCreatingOkayUselessTitlesRanSoftwareBiggest MistakeChecklistsUseless Things Author:Reid Hoffman
“A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with each customer now that's okay because we have this huge hoard of venture capital that we can subsidise the operation with and once we have the required number of tens of millions of customers and we drive our competitors out of business, then we can start to raise prices and become a proper business.'” IfsPhilosophyNumbersMillionsHugeLosingOkayRaisesCustomersOperationsVentureCompetitorsVenture CapitalLosing Money Author:Kevin Kinsella
“Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.” WantYearsGuyOrderFightingWishEasyStuffMillionsProductsOkayBallsFinishedRapperMore MoneyHittingThis GuyJeterSandlot Author:Mr. T
“Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.” IfsWellsStillsUseAnswersMillionsFiguresTomorrowConsciousTestsOkayLotteryDough Author:Douglas Coupland
“At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsStillsEndsFeelingsLyingChanceAnswersWonderMillionsBedLetting GoWorshipOkayMathSillyTheologyThe End Of The Day Author:Donald Miller
“Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.” LooksMayUseCareHalfMillionsOne DayOkayTake CareTitlesEmpiresCatchy Author:Nora Roberts