Tim Ferriss Quotes

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

Tim Ferriss

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• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Short

• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Question

• In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Man

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

  

  Adele
  • Writing

• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People
  • Writing

• I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Writing
  • Song

• I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Writing
  • School

• If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Enough

• I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Looks
  • Cat
  • Keeping Secrets

• That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Guitar

• Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Commands