Tim Ferriss Quotes

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.

Tim Ferriss

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• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Future
  • Me
  • Star

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Film
  • Television
  • Shows

• It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money

• We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Night
  • Trolls

• In my youth, growing up in a Jewish milieu, there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Value

• I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Mom

• And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

  

  Christo
  • Simple

• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Question
  • Cheer

• I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Help

• A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Life
  • Movie

• I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Culture
  • Matrix

• But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hand
  • Measured
  • Leaf

• What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Expectation

• I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn't play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Media
  • First Thing

• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Conversation
  • Heard
  • Material

• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Sorry
  • Screw Up
  • Troublemaker