Tim Ferriss Quotes

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Tim Ferriss

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• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Why
  • Play
  • Canada

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Cancer
  • Start
  • New

• To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

  

  Zendaya
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Model

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Job
  • Welcome

• I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • You
  • Shoes

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Thought

• The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Brain
  • Google
  • Inventor

• Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • American
  • Today
  • Dream

• I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thought
  • Down
  • Street

• It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • She
  • Girl
  • Discipline

• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Career

• One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Passion
  • Ideas
  • Steal