Tim Ferriss Quotes

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Tim Ferriss

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• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life

• Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Friendship
  • Friendships

• In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Perfect
  • To Be
  • Sheep

• I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Women

• I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Trust

• Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

  

  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Emotional

• We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

  

  Bubba Smith
  • Good
  • Done
  • Football

• Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Good
  • Star

• Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Humor
  • Enjoyment
  • Thin

• Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• My father has always been such a doer.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Father

• The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• What you do for money you do badly.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Money
  • Badly

• Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Language