Top 100 Tucker Max Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’ve come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.”

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52. “I don’t want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.”

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53. “The science of meditation is very clear and provides overwhelming evidence: even twenty minutes a day doing mindfulness meditation increases happiness, vitality, emotional stability, and focus. It also decreases irritability, anxiety, depression, blood pressure, and the stress hormone cortisol. Meditation induces a physiological relaxation response in your body that counteracts daily stress.”

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54. “Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.”

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55. “Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.”

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56. “It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.”

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57. “My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: “Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?”

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58. “I’m not even the coolest one of my friends. I’m just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.”

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59. “The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that’s true that I don’t want to be.”

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60. “Tucker “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am. Please speak up.”

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61. “Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.”

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62. “I prefer to keep fooling myself, at least for a little while longer.”

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63. “Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.”

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64. “The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won’t.”

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65. “Hi. I haven’t insulted you yet, have I?”

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66. “General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.”

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67. “Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.”

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68. “We can’t get kicked out of McDonald’s! This is like the DMZ of drunk eating.”

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69. “Hollywood, it’s just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.”

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70. “If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.”

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71. “If you don’t have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.”

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72. “I’m never going to be Tolstoy.”

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73. “It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.”

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74. “I was not developmentally disabled, but didn’t mature at the same rate other kids did.”

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75. “It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.”

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76. “Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.”

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77. “I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.”

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78. “My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn’t know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.”

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79. “Of course, I’m not a doctor; I just watch a lot of ER and House.”

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80. “I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.”

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81. “Frankly, I’d rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.”

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82. “I’m not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.”

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83. “The great stories go to those who aren’t afraid to live them.”

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84. “I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It’s perfect.”

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85. “Helping reproductive services doesn’t just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.”

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86. “Before you’re famous it’s stuff that seems like it’d be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it’s not bad, but it’s kind of hollow and meaningless.”

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87. “Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.”

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88. “Calling one thing ‘literature’ and another ‘fiction’ is a way to create status where there is none.”

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89. “The poet John Ciardi pointed out, “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at women and persuade themselves they have a better idea.”

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90. “Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.”

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91. “You can’t fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they’re brutal. If something sucks, they’ll tell you.”

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92. “Opinions are projections.”

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93. “To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don’t be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it – and you’ll eventually get it.”

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94. “I’ve never really had a media edifice supporting me.”

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95. “Hey man, so can you speak to dolphins and pilot whales with that forehead of yours?”

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96. “If you read the book, you’re not a journalist. You’re some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.”

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97. “I’m not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.”

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98. “To put it simply, we think books are too important to leave to writers, and we want the wisest, most experienced, most knowledgeable people on earth to be able to effectively and easily share their wisdom with the world.”

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99. “Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want.”

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100. “This is not a small thing. You may not realize this, but the majority of the tacit knowledge that builds civilizations, the stuff that maybe isn’t sexy but is foundational knowledge, has actually been lost. Why? Because no one wrote it down. They just passed it on by word of mouth.”

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