Tim Ferriss Quotes

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Time
  • Pressure
  • Hitting

• You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Know
  • Insult
  • Martial Arts

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Women
  • Country
  • Job

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fate
  • England
  • India

• The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Government
  • Judiciary

• It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Book
  • Shows

• What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Journey
  • Listener
  • Metallica

• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Understanding
  • Road
  • Training

• I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Together
  • Hands
  • Posture

• Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Learn
  • Fight
  • Reputation