Tim Ferriss Quotes
If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
Quotes to Explore
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.
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I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.
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If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
