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"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."

"If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it."

"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."

"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."

"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."

"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."
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"Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes."


"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment."


"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes."


"There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas."


"I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since."


"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."


"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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