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.

Tim Ferriss

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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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Ideas

• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Which

• 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.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• 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.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Done
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Me
  • Sad

• 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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Food
  • Technology
  • Limits

• 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.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Man
  • Law
  • Wise

• I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Kids
  • Feel
  • Better

• As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Music
  • Child
  • Heard

• The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Diversity
  • Messengers

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Diseases
  • Malaria
  • Dengue

• 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.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Act
  • Questions
  • Disasters

• Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

  

  Aretha Franklin
  • People
  • Music
  • Happened

• We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Expression

• None who has passed through the portals of UAA has been a failure. From the former Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, to Lakshmi, Cho, Nagesh, Moulee, Srikanth, ARS and I, all have been a part of UAA.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Failure
  • Portals
  • UAA

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Heaven
  • Puzzle
  • Approval

• 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.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Customers
  • Puzzle
  • Publisher