Tim Quotes

So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

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

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Necessity is the author of change.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.