Tim Ferriss Quotes
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.
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Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
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I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
