Tim Ferriss Quotes
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
