Tim Ferriss Quotes

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

Tim Ferriss

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• I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

  

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

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• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

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• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

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• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

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• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

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• The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

  

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• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

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• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

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• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

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• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

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• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

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• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

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• The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

  

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• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  

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• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

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• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  

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• Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

  

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• [ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

  

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• Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Years
  • Cases
  • Huckster