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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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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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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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
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'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.
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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
