A Quote by Jeff Bezos
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.
A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.
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