Quotes by Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun

All great tasks test our motivation. It’s easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It’s in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it’s no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.

Morning

Motivation

Taken

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Differences

Hallmark

Praise

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it’s many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Fun

Ideas

Together

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 creative.

Creative

Failing

Risk

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Expected

Experiments

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don’t have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we’re satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.

Kings

Song

Strong

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Public Speaking

Thinking

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 success.

Creativity

Giving

Innovation

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

Perfect

Trying

Want

If you’d like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Firsts

Perfection

Window

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Advice

Answers

Believe

Block

Book

Challenges

Clarity

Code

Confidence

Creative

Creativity

Differences

Doubt

Educational

Expected

Experiments

Failing

Firsts

Fun

Giving

Goal

Hallmark

Ideas

Innovation

Jobs

Kings

Knowing

Land

Morning

Motivation

Nice

Obvious Things

Online

Passion

People

Perfect

Perfection

Perspective

Pneumonia

Positive Change

Powerful

Practice

Praise

President

Priorities

Problem

Public Speaking

Risk

Safe

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Quotes by Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it’s many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

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 creative.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

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 success.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

If you’d like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

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