Tim Ferriss Quotes

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Tim Ferriss

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Discipline
  • Healthy
  • Clothes

• I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Play
  • Best
  • Video Games

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Job
  • Working
  • Open

• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Sincerity

• I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• For me, fashion is not about reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Fashion

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Place

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind

• You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Understanding

• You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mysterious

• I am the same as the public as my fans.

  

  Jenni Rivera

• Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Done
  • Water

• As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

  

  Mary Karr

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • World
  • Children
  • Question

• As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Question
  • Violence
  • Ignorance

• That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Question
  • Why Not