Tim Ferriss Quotes
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.
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Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
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Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.
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My favorite food was seafood, and that's all I used to eat. And then there I was, 27 years old, and bam, I have this allergic reaction - and it's life-threatening. So it's very important to spread the word and spread awareness so people can be better prepared in case anaphylaxis occurs in their life.
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Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.
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Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.
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The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.
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If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.
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As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
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I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
