Tim Ferriss Quotes
Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
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As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
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I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.
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I do not think I have the right to determine the political future of Syria, be it with or without al-Assad. This is for the Syrians themselves to decide. Nobody has the right to claim the rights that belong to the people of another country.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
