Tim Ferriss Quotes

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Tim Ferriss

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Productivity

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Human

• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

  

  Edmund White
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Beautiful

• Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Family
  • Desert

• It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blow

• I never invite idiots to my house.

  

  Elizabeth Montagu
  • House

• Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • True
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Fun
  • Guy

• If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.

  

  Chris Cubas
  • Good
  • Comedy

• What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • America
  • Moving

• Know your career values: Not your parents' values, not your friends', but what you personally value in work. For me, it's things like moving quickly and scrappily, ownership and authority over my work, and flexibility.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Career

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Connection
  • Circumstances
  • Function

• I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Kids
  • Moving
  • Adopting

• Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Moving
  • Hesitate
  • Most People