Tim Ferriss Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
