Quotes from Tucker Max

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." —Theodore Roosevelt

Reference piece 9.2: How Writing A Book Can Build Your Brand, and 9.3: How to Make Money With Your Book.

If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson.

True confidence is not about hoping that you can take this risk (that's called courage) and overcome this challenge (that's perseverance); it's about realistically expecting that you can do it, based on previously demonstrated performance. A confident guy expects the woman to engage

This is because fears often partly originate from a subconscious reaction to a poor plan or a lack of a plan (this is also where procrastination comes from).

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

I'd compare watching that thing to masturbating with sandpaper

It was so bad I had to hit myself in the hand with a tack hammer to take my mind off the pain it caused me

11:30: I am confused. I only want sushi.

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why-doesn't-he-love-me books out, because this is all you need to know: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as "deserving" respect; you get what you demand from people.. if you demand respect, he will either respect you or he won't associate with you. It really is that simple.

the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

I'm fresh out of fucks to give.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.