Tim Ferriss Quotes

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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  • Together

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
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  • Taken

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Easy

• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
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  • Religious
  • Sometimes

• The day that you walk out in front of 30,000 people and don't get nervous is probably the day to give it up. It's inspiring to be a little terrified.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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  • Dark

• There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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  • Art
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• A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.

  

  Camila Alves
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• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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  • Money
  • Myself

• It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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  • Time
  • Purpose

• Some say, why will people pay for cinema when they can watch cheaper DVDs at home? But I say, everyone has a kitchen at home, yet there are still many restaurants.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
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• Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.

  

  Taika Waititi
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• In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Feel
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  • Empty

• I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

  

  Tim Ferriss
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