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
  • Member

• 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 am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Wall
  • Thankful

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Language

• I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge
  • Stop

• Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Community

• Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Today

• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Art
  • Knowledge

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

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Language