Tim Ferriss Quotes
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.
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Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.
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I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
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Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
