Tim Ferriss Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
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I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies to price-discriminate, and it'll be fabulously profitable.
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Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
