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
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• 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
  • People
  • 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

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

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Grateful

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

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• 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
  • People
  • 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Purpose

• The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Color
  • Wall

• I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I don't feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It's not really that entertaining. I've seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Live
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

  

  Mark Ruffalo

• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • State

• 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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