Tim Ferriss Quotes

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Tim Ferriss

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• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Father
  • Faith

• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Small
  • inspirational

• I don't think limits.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Limits

• I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Kind

• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bittersweet

• I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Job
  • House
  • Leadership

• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Run
  • Truck
  • Quit

• I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Night
  • Strong
  • Best

• It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Long

• The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Achievement

• I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

  

  Carly Simon
  • People
  • Great
  • Hand

• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Children
  • History

• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Always
  • Human

• I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

  

  Alan Davies
  • Space
  • Humanity

• I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Goals
  • Believer
  • Dreamlines