Quotes by Derek Sivers

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, Does it do [x]?, Do you plan to add [y]?. Finally Jobs said, Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we dont want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. Its about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excitesyou and what scares you everyday, not bytrying to find your passion.

Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that itll be told for a thousand years.“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”Thats why people invent fights. Thats why were drawn to sports. Thats why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal.Were trying to make our life into a fairy tale.