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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Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.
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I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
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Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
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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.
