Tim Ferriss Quotes

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• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America-because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • Women
  • Country
  • America

• The first draft of anything is sh*t.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Creativity
  • Firsts
  • Inspiring

• Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • World
  • Interested
  • Achievements

• Rock music is niche.

  

  Bono U2
  • Niche
  • Rock Music

• Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Eye

• More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Fall
  • Spirit

• Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Simplicity
  • Embrace
  • Despoil

• We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.

  

  Brittany MacLean
  • Finals
  • Fresh
  • Seconds

• When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Advice

• Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.

  

  Bo Ryan
  • Playing
  • Caught
  • Indiana

• Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.

  

  Gemma Galgani
  • Approach
  • Flesh
  • Shoulders

• Where there was life, there was also hope.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Life
  • Hope

• You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

  

  Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Work Hard
  • Rise
  • Notions

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van Morrison on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.

  

  Andrew Loog Oldham
  • Records
  • Listen
  • Privilege

• People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

  

  Tim Ferriss
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