W. M. L. Jay Quotes

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

In the world of fashion, nothing is ever comfortable.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

You cannot accurately remember color.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.

Allow yourself to lose your way.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.

The leaders of the Taliban said today that killing bin Laden won't solve the problem. But, you know, it couldn't hurt.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.

Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we all know what kind of aim Clinton has.