Tim Ferriss Quotes
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
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My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
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I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.
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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.
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Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
