Tim Ferriss Quotes

Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

Tim Ferriss

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• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Artist

• The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Two
  • Organic
  • Compounds

• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • World
  • Mind
  • Funny

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Daily

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Action
  • Peace

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Brand

• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Task

• With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Amazing

• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Earth
  • Words
  • Lies

• As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Small

• I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Indicator