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

• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• 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

• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Goals

• 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

• What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Mean
  • Serious
  • Trouble

• I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Game
  • Architecture

• I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Citizens
  • Don't Think
  • Falls

• My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fear

• 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