Tim Ferriss Quotes

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

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• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Idea

• There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Together
  • Success

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Taken

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Important
  • Care
  • Makeup

• To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Great
  • You
  • Player

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Black

• I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • School
  • Mom

• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• I love tap!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tap

• Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Deep

• Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Broken
  • Wings

• Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Country
  • Racism

• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Believe
  • American

• He's a tremendous human being - and that's on top of all of his talent. It's about the way he handles things and the way he approaches matches; he studies, he prepares and he takes advantage of opportunities when he needs to.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Opportunity
  • Study
  • Talent

• The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Perfect
  • Method
  • Decent