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 sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• 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 tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Beautiful
  • Daughter

• Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Hand
  • Progress
  • Scary

• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

  

  Cindy Morgan

• 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