Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
