Things a Little Bird Told Me Quotes

“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Your goals should be bigger than your ego,”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Constraint inspires creativity”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Opportunity is manufactured”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life when you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you´ve experienced that sustained fulfillment , you´ll never want to settle for anything else”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“I invite you to open your mind to new possibilities. Let’s fake it till we make it. Let’s create visions of an aspirational future. You don’t have to quit your job. But think about what might change your trajectory by half a degree. It could be that when you come home every night your first words are “I’m home! How can I help?” Try doing that. You may have a shitty job. You don’t like it. You do it for the money, even if the money isn’t great. Try to look at your work in a different way. Find something about your life that’s great. Follow that thread. Volunteer. Even if you’re in the worst possible situation, there’s hope. Challenge yourself. Set your own bar. Redefine your success metrics. Create opportunities for yourself. Reassess your situation. We are all marching together. We’re headed toward something big, and it’s going to be good.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn’t necessary.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Larry Wall, who created the programming language Perl, once said, “When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.” Hashtags, @replies, and retweets emerged in just that way.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don’t love what you’re building, if you’re not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you’re doing everything else right.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Adopting a career because it’s lucrative, or because your parents want you to, or because it falls into your lap, can sometimes work out, but often, after you settle in, it starts to feel wrong. It’s like someone else punched the GPS coordinates into your phone. You’re locked onto your course, but you don’t even know where you’re going. When the route doesn’t feel right, when your autopilot is leading you astray, then you must question your destination. Hey! Who put “law degree” in my phone? Zoom out, take a high-altitude view of what’s going on in your life, and start thinking about where you really want to go. See the whole geography—the roads, the traffic, the destination. Do you like where you are? Do you like the end point? Is changing things a matter of replotting your final destination, or are you on the wrong map altogether? A GPS is an awesome tool, but if you aren’t the one inputting the data, you can’t rely on it to guide you. The world is a big place, and you can’t approach it as if it’s been preprogrammed. Give yourself the chance to change the route in search of emotional engagement.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.”
― Biz Stone, Things A Little Bird Told Me

“When it came to listening to the folks who used Twitter, we put our money where our mouths were. Watching for patterns of use across the system, we built features based on those patterns. Larry Wall, who created the programming language Perl, once said, “When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.” Hashtags, @replies, and retweets emerged in just that way.”
― Biz Stone, Things A Little Bird Told Me

“Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“If we probe what’s behind our assumptions, what we find isn’t knowledge or wisdom. It’s fear. We’re afraid that other people’s ideas will make us look less than. We’re afraid that if we make a change, a product won’t come in on time.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Failure was part of the path. It was worth the risk. In fact, it was a critical component of growth. By sharing it with our users, we were showing our ultimate confidence in ourselves and our success. We weren’t quitting, and we hoped our faith would inspire theirs.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“I realized that a company can build a business, do good in society, and have fun. These three goals can run alongside one another, without being dominated by the bottom line.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel—a limited resource that must be conserved—or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“If you don’t love what you’re building, if you’re not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you’re doing everything else right.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life when you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you’ve experienced that sustained fulfillment, you’ll never want to settle for anything less.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind