Tim Ferriss Quotes
To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
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The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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I kinda got touched a little bit. It wasn't serious. Play like that at the end of the game, you can't put that on the refs. We got a bad bounce.
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You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.
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They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.
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Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.
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But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.
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To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
