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.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Country
  • Future
  • More

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• 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.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• 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.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Books
  • Writer
  • Favourite

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.

  

  Young Thug
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Girlfriend

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Food

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Business
  • Succeed

• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Team
  • Never
  • Someone

• I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

  

  Candy Darling
  • Fool
  • Lonely
  • Silly

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Job

• We're a pretty strong bunch, and we have pretty lofty goals. For us, the manager is very important in a lot of ways, but also, we have a job to do, and that's to go out and win.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Important
  • Job
  • Pretty

• That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Job
  • Given
  • Billion