Tim Ferriss Quotes

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Tim Ferriss

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Look

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Design
  • Part
  • Strategy

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Win
  • Credit
  • Soldiers

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Military
  • Budget

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Day
  • Problems

• If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Ifs
  • Would Be

• It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.

  

  Callum Blue
  • Life
  • Women
  • Guy

• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Pleasure

• Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Happiness
  • Problems
  • Resulting