Tim Ferriss Quotes

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Tim Ferriss

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• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Children
  • Death
  • Opportunity

• I fight fairly, and in good faith.

  

  Edmond About
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Fight

• I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Art
  • Powerful
  • Strength

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I was in Big In Japan between '77 and '78. Then I went solo, releasing a couple of singles. Then I joined the Dancing Girls who turned into the Sons Of Egypt who were then whittled down into Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Couple

• I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

  

  Edward Everett

• I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Done
  • Picture

• It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • God
  • Together
  • Reading

• Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Color
  • Green

• Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Important
  • Yoga

• I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

  

  Joanna Newsom

• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Good
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past

• I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Not
  • Grown-Up
  • Matured

• Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.

  

  John Muir
  • God
  • May
  • Nature

• I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold enough to believe in your vision. And there's a quote that really fits his particular energy. It says - they say don't go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. I think that's exactly what Chuck did, you know. It's an inspiration to a lot of folks, not just musicians, but people everywhere.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • People
  • Sports

• Many a false step was made by standing still.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • False Step