“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.” ThinkingStuffInterestingCompanyTechnologyFiveFourSeeingNew YorkSouthPocketsChicagoValleysBostonSeattleSiliconSilicon ValleyGetting Started Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.” PeopleShowsRunningJobsStuffDifficultRealizingAttitudeWatchesFourSurvivalLettersPersistencePositive AttitudeMusclesMumJumpingUnlikelyDifficult TimesReally HappyJumping OffLiberatorsFlexing Author:Bear Grylls
“I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.” YearsKindCharacterThreeStuffFourLuckySpeechPagesStuff I Like Author:Donal Logue
“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?” IfsLongArtStuffForgetCompanySuccessfulRecordsFourPaintingEqualLawyerForget ItGalleryRecord CompaniesPatronLeonardoPublicists Author:Debbie Harry
“Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.” KnowsRealStuffHoursFourSoloGeek Author:Nicole Lapin
“I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.” PeopleStoriesThreeStuffSportsLinesFourMinutesGloryToughStandingReach OutGravitySkatingDefying Author:Kurt Browning
“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"” ThinkingKnowsTryingMomentsHomeCertainThreeNextStuffFourWeekBuildingStudiosShootingNext DayComing BackRehearsal Author:Anthony Heald
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsFactsJobsLawThreeGivenStuffFourCoachesFour YearsGood JobRecogniseUnspokenGood Coaches Author:Daley Thompson
“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.” WritingFirstsIdeasUsedSongStuffSidesFourSingingTrackProductionsMelodyVehicleLyrical Author:M. Ward
“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.” MadeI CanStuffEnjoyFourCuttingImagineBrotherScenePagesHappeningsBallsGreenScreensTeethDialogueTennisGasTwinsAdaptationBecause I CanTennis BallsTwin Brother Author:Nicolas Cage