Tim Ferriss Quotes
If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
Quotes to Explore
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Tell him to go to hell.
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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.
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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
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Armed with these two formulas you can do any problem!
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If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
