A Quote by Alexis Ohanian

The first version of everything is janky. — © Alexis Ohanian
The first version of everything is janky.
Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.
I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it tells you what the good version is. And then you write that.
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version of ourselves. To "cultivate one's moral character" is the first step towards taking responsibility for the nation, and for society. Confucius and his disciples struggled hard to be "the best version" of themselves, but their aim in this was to better carry out their responsibilities to the society in which they lived.
I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.
As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.
There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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