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.

Tim Ferriss

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• Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Just
  • Follow
  • Soldiers

• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Giving
  • Explain
  • Does

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• 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.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Different
  • Space
  • Purpose

• Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Industry
  • Reach
  • Capability

• Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Relax
  • Colors
  • Gardening

• The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Government
  • Matter

• I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Lost
  • Company

• 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?

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Why
  • Food
  • Change

• I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Find

• There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Health
  • Point
  • Workaholic

• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Help
  • Heaven

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If the ongoing probe ends, I will take appropriate measures on anybody, including myself, who are found to be accountable for.

  

  Jay Y. Lee

• A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • World
  • Mind
  • May

• I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

  

  Paul Keating
  • People
  • Accepting
  • Reform

• I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • Writing

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Jobs
  • Stress
  • Choose