Tim Ferriss Quotes

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Tim Ferriss

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• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Man

• I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Atheist

• It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Character
  • Failure
  • Common

• We're achieving a lot of success right now and it's not all happening at once, so I think there's a lot of momentum to go. It makes us feel good about ourselves.

  

  Matt Slocum Sixpence None the Richer
  • Success
  • Feel Good
  • Achieving

• Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Home
  • Soldier
  • Ball

• The hegemonic powers also used religion and nationalism to preserve their supremacy. In all parts of Kurdistan, Islam is a state religion used as a tool for controlling the population. Even if these regimes embrace secularism, the entanglement of political and religious institutions is obvious.

  

  Abdullah Ocalan
  • Islam
  • Population
  • Controlling

• I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Ignorance
  • I Believe
  • Written

• The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Success
  • Planning
  • Determination

• I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Seen
  • Insecure
  • Atlanta

• I've always been quite an insecure person.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Person
  • To Be
  • Insecure

• Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements, fundamentalist ideologies and violence.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Fight

• As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Respect
  • Jazz
  • Favorite

• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Insecure
  • Rest Of The World