Tim Ferriss Quotes

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

I married an awesome cook, thats cool!

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.