Tim Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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

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

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.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

I have a thing for tools.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.

I'm a very bad student, but a great learner.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.