The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to r...
TIM FERRISS I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIM FERRISS Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the dam...
TIM FERRISS I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hu...
TIM FERRISS When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock a...
TIM FERRISS A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When...
TIM FERRISS The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIM FERRISS Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other ...
TIM FERRISS Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. First...
TIM FERRISS In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite int...
TIM FERRISS One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class ...
TIM FERRISS I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more r...
TIM FERRISS After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIM FERRISS I've found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People hav...
TIM FERRISS It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same ...
TIM FERRISS Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
TIM FERRISS I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my ...
TIM FERRISS Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in s...
TIM FERRISS The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no ...
TIM FERRISS To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is ...
TIM FERRISS Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
TIM FERRISS If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIM FERRISS If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I...
TIM FERRISS The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIM FERRISS Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which...
TIM FERRISS The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together ...
TIM FERRISS Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or t...
TIM FERRISS I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminat...
TIM FERRISS There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters,...
TIM FERRISS The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIM FERRISS I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which ...
TIM FERRISS I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home ...
TIM FERRISS If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of tha...
TIM FERRISS I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sight...
TIMOTHY FERRISS I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIMOTHY FERRISS After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIMOTHY FERRISS When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors...
TIMOTHY FERRISS In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite int...
TIMOTHY FERRISS You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourse...
TIMOTHY FERRISS To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. First...
TIMOTHY FERRISS I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
TIMOTHY FERRISS I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three cu...
TIMOTHY FERRISS I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of...
TIMOTHY FERRISS To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality...
TIMOTHY FERRISS People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.
TIMOTHY FERRISS As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask w...
HUGH FERRISS A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York e...
HUGH FERRISS But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effe...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, intere...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
TIMOTHY FERRISS I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usua...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive t...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
TIMOTHY FERRISS For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
TIMOTHY FERRISS If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
TIMOTHY FERRISS The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a sk...
TIMOTHY FERRISS People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indica...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotion...
TIMOTHY FERRISS People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction...
TIMOTHY FERRISS If you let pride stop you, you will hate life
TIMOTHY FERRISS The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over persona...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Life is too short to be small.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Focus on being productive instead of busy.
TIMOTHY FERRISS The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
TIMOTHY FERRISS What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIMOTHY FERRISS A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the righ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would e...
TIMOTHY FERRISS 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s...
TIM Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flex...
TIM VINE It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...
TIM ALLEN Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic...
TIM WISE As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am...
TIM CAHILL I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's ...
TIM COOK We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizo...
TIM COOK Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they di...
TIM GANE I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
TIM TEBOW There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of...
TIM TEBOW I'm an introvert on the Myers-Briggs. I've got to have time by myself to recharge. My philos...
TIM KAINE I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I...
TIM TEBOW How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When di...
TIM REID Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. ...
TIM CAHILL In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ...
TIM BISHOP I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket...
TIM MCGRAW One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab...
TIM DALY People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're...
TIM TEBOW My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff...
TIM CURRY When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w...
TIM HARFORD Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to lit...
TIM SCHAFER There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hit...
TIM WAKEFIELD I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming...
TIM COPE So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
TIM VINE Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my jour...
TIM COPE Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwar...
TIM VINE In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ...
TIM COOK I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I gu...
TIM CONWAY The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were lookin...
TIM CONWAY As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was ...
TIM SCOTT I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Dona...
TIM KAINE I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... The...
TINY TIM For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, ...
TIM DALY I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc...
TIM GRIFFIN It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there'...
TIM CAHILL The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthu...
TINY TIM The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are ...
TIM RYAN Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
TIM VINE Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images a...
TIM MURPHY I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken...
TIM KAINE Necessity is the author of change
TIM HANSEL Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they...
TIM CAHILL By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and...
TIM JOHNSON I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic ...
TIM PRATT The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe...
TIM HOWARD I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.
TIM VINE To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but v...
TIM O'BRIEN I like bothering people and stirring things up.
TIM DALY I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.
TIM HUDSON Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't co...
TIM HUDSON Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that ...
TIM HUDSON I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I g...
TIM HUDSON One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a ...
TIM HUDSON When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood...
TIM HUDSON After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money a...
TIM SCHAFER In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth...
TIM O'BRIEN The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three...
TIM O'BRIEN Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into o...
TIM O'REILLY So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TIM VINE We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thi...
TIM THARP The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
TIM FARGO Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ...
TIM WILLOCKS Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
TIM FARGO One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and...
TIM CRAWSHAW Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
TIM FARGO I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
TIM DALY Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but ...
TIM THARP It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of bei...
TIM THARP We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
TIM FOLEY I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
TIM GOULD Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
TIM ROBBINS Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
TIM MCCARVER I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I...
TIM ROBBINS Necessity is the author of change.
TIM HANSEL When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON Telling lies does not work in advertising.
TIM BELL Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m...
TIM BERNERS I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.
TIM GUNN Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles
TIM CAHILL I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the...
TIM HARDAWAY I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've...
TIM DUNCAN I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
TIM ALLEN Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good l...
TIM ALLEN In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chair...
TIM HUNT Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure inv...
TIM RYAN The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is ...
TIM JACKSON A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive...
TIM ARMSTRONG I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse...
TIM TEBOW I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
TIM CAHILL The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or U...
TIM BRAY Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.
TIM BISHOP A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation sys...
TIM BISHOP As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congre...
TIM BISHOP Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen'...
TIM O'BRIEN I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That'...
TIM TEBOW When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable...
TIM HUELSKAMP The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some ...
TIM KAINE The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees ...
TIM HARFORD Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential ...
TIM JACKSON I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropolo...
TIM ROBBINS