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"2005 Stanford Commencement Address"
“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating,” Jobs recalled in a commencement speech at Stanford University.
Peter Sims • Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
- Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short t