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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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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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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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I don't read a lot of books.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
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Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.
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There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.
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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
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Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
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I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.
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Mediocrity is underrated.
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We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?
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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.
