Tim Ferriss Quotes
This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
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By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.