Tim Ferriss Quotes

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Tim Ferriss

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• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Deep

• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
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  • Will
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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Children
  • Never
  • Place

• I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.

  

  Maluma
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Inspire

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Good
  • Preparation
  • Tour

• I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.

  

  Lucy Larcom

• I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Boy
  • Pool

• Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Happy

• Everything in moderation, like calories.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Picture

• The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Man
  • Black
  • Theatre

• By the time it's considered socially acceptable to start screwing, most of us are sexually constipated, and this is often an incurable condition. I think young people should be able to have their first sexual love affair whenever they feel like it. In the case of most girls, this would be around 13 or 14; with most boys, around 15 or 16.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • People
  • Time

• Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.

  

  Deb Olin Unferth
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Humans

• If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Experience
  • Tired

• I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • States
  • Adults
  • Perversion

• The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Experience
  • Goal
  • Eliminate