Tim Ferriss Quotes

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

Tim Ferriss

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Powerful

• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Roll

• Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Yourself
  • Shoes

• I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Always
  • Gift
  • Suspicious

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Free
  • Tree

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• 'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Law

• I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Community
  • Action

• There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • Music
  • God

• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Violence
  • Untruth

• If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don't go in.

  

  Clive James
  • Mistake

• The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Truth
  • Healthy
  • Trilogy