Tim Ferriss Quotes

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Tim Ferriss

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Never

• I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Reading
  • Day

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Confident
  • Athletes

• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Women
  • May

• Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Growing

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Hockey

• You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Gay

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

  

  Arthur Smith

• I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Perception

• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Comedy

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

  

  Jerry Kramer
  • School
  • Baby

• By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wall

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Same

• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Difference