Tim Ferriss Quotes

There are no statues erected to critics.

Tim Ferriss

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• I love having critics for breakfast.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Critics

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Book
  • Forever

• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Media

• You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Teacher

• There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Family
  • Law
  • Kind

• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Critics
  • Harsh
  • Status Quo

• The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Men
  • Different
  • Kind

• The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Perspective

• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Women
  • Children
  • Past

• I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Critics

• Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Age
  • Suffering
  • Girls

• Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Judge
  • Critics
  • Romanticism

• When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Rest
  • Prayer

• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sin
  • Rule
  • Saint

• A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Directors
  • Writers
  • Communicate

• Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• There are no statues erected to critics.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Critics
  • Statues
  • Erected