Tim Ferriss Quotes
If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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How I love David Bowie.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
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Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
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If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.
