Tim Ferriss Quotes

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Youth

• God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Universe
  • Language

• Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Miracles

• One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Black

• The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Free
  • Beauty
  • Lunch

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• We are facing extreme volatility.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Extreme
  • Facing
  • Volatility

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Money
  • Search
  • Research

• It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Television

• I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Good
  • Success
  • Teacher

• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Father
  • Man
  • Shadow

• For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.

  

  Becca Tobin
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

  

  Jim Elliot
  • World
  • Father
  • Values

• Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

  

  Eileen Chang
  • Life
  • Extravagant
  • Lice

• If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

  

  Minor White
  • Giving
  • Worth
  • Cameras

• Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

  

  Walther von der Vogelweide
  • Fighting
  • Sound
  • Flower

• I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Simple

• Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Diet
  • Damage
  • Binge