Tim Ferriss Quotes

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

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• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Great
  • Young
  • Great Things

• The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Choose

• I think any message behind a lifestyle brand should embrace everyone.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Together
  • Best

• I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• A lapse in judgment is not a crime.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • Crime
  • Judgment
  • Lapse

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Fun
  • Pants
  • Thriller

• I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Long
  • Family
  • Bad

• There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Great
  • Day
  • London

• I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Choose

• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Science

• The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Today
  • Past
  • Equal

• Guys are so visual.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Guys
  • Visual

• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Nothing

• More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Life
  • Country
  • Business

• I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Believe
  • City

• We had the mind-set to just keep putting points on the board. One of the goals coming into the game was to keep our defense off the field, knowing that their offense had a lot of firepower.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Game
  • Goals
  • Offense

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

  

  Steven R. McQueen
  • Fan
  • Interaction
  • Flattering

• I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Fan
  • Idleness
  • Doses