Tim Ferriss Quotes

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Tim Ferriss

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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Question

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Acting

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Age
  • Education

• My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Problem
  • Marriage
  • Feelings

• I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

  

  Lee Strobel
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Regard

• The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Design

• When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Today
  • Earth
  • Universe

• Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Universe
  • Regard
  • Efficient