Tim Ferriss Quotes
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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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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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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You learn more in failure than you ever do in success
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I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
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I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.
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Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
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Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
