Scott Berkun Quotes

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• My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
• It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.
• History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled…
• Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either.
• The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.
• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their…
• Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.
• This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.
• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless…
• Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.
• The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the…
• Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
• Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.
• Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
• Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or…
• There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even…
• It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to…
• Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when…
• It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
• People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely…

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