Tim Ferriss Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
-
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
-
Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
-
I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
-
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
-
I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
-
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
-
When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
-
I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
-
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
-
Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
-
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
-
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
-
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
-
Shortly after Medicare was passed, Americans were told it would cost $12 billion in 1990. Actual cost? $98 billion. Americans were also told that the cost of Medicaid would be less than $1 billion in 1992. Actual cost? $17 billion.
-
Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.
-
I kind of like working fast.
-
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
