Tim Ferriss Quotes

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Decision
  • Young

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• I love recording music.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Recording

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Day
  • Step

• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Desire

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Fish
  • Birds

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Sometimes
  • Paint

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Work
  • Know
  • Taken

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• Ideas come through us, not from us.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Ideas
  • Come
  • U.S.

• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Problem
  • Trust
  • Camera

• I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Hope

• One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

  

  Alexi Giannoulias
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Today

• I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Important
  • Country
  • Art

• The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

  

  Joel Fuhrman

• While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Together

• An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

  

  Tim Ferriss
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