Tim Ferriss Quotes
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
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I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
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Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.
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It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.
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If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
