Merlin Mann Quotes

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Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

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Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment.

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If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

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"Friend us on Facebook!" is a social media strategy like "Buy me a malt liquor!" is a charitable giving plan.

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Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

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If you don't want a little moisture on the mattress, maybe you shouldn't have gone to the bar.

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Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

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When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.

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Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

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A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

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It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

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You sit around and you go, Oh, I hope people like me, and I hope they friend me, and I hope they do all this superficial stuff that doesn't cost anything. But what you really want is to not suck enough that people that you really admire wouldn't mind doing something with you.

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If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

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People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

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Make the time to be scared of more interesting things

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Write your way out of a thinking block—because you'll never think your way out of a writing block.

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