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.Tim Ferriss
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus -
Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
Edgar Wright -
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx -
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 -
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill -
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
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri -
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach -
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Naomi Klein -
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 -
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 -
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Baz Luhrmann
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith -
Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
Matt Taibbi -
I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
Chelsea Handler -
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield -
The people at Dylan's Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun... and love the colors and the textures.
Dylan Lauren
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West -
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
Paddy Ashdown -
Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.
Caitlin Moran -
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