Top 100 Timothy Ferriss Quotes
#1. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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#2. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
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#3. You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
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#4. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":
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#8. Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
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#9. Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest, but rises the fastest.
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#10. Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.
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#11. When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
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#12. something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.
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#13. Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.
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#14. it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however
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#16. you never want to solve a research problem with language. You
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#17. you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.
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#18. 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.
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#20. This idea that we're either courageous or chicken shit is just not true, because most of us are afraid and brave at the exact same moment, all day long.
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#21. In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.
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#22. Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
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#24. So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?
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#25. Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
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#26. Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly
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#27. If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
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#28. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
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#29. Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
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#30. I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple." I
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#31. If you do something as simple as 15-minute ice baths three days a week, and you time those baths properly, you can significantly multiply your fat loss.
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#32. One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE
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#33. There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.
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#34. If you don't give young men a good and useful group to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. But one way or another, they're going to create a group, and they're going to find something, an adversary, where they can demonstrate their prowess and their unity.
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#36. To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
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#37. Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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#38. Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.
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#39. Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet. - Brooke Smith, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman
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#40. Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.
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#41. People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
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#42. I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.
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#44. Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.
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#45. If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.
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#46. Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.
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#47. Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.
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#48. Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing?
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#49. For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
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#50. Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
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#51. Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.
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#52. Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.
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#54. Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
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#55. As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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#56. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.
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#57. What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please, write in, tell us on social media why these are real excuses with #bullshit afterwards. Oh my God, man, that's such a great story.
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#58. Far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.
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#59. The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.
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#61. Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale
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#62. The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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#63. Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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#64. If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.
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#65. How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?
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#66. When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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#67. We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow
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#68. The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in prime real estate like front-of-store, end caps, or front window.
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#70. I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
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#72. But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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#73. now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit" and check out minute 31.
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#74. The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - WILLIAM GIBSON,
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#75. At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment, ceaseless self-purification and growing self-reliance. ... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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#76. What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive?
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#77. The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. - WARREN G. BENNIS,
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#78. After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
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#79. Notice how often he reframes the question (examines whether the question is the right question) before answering. In several cases, how he dissects wording is as interesting as his answers.
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#80. Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.
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#81. The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
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#82. World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
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#85. There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.
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#86. At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.
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#87. I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?
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#88. I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
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#89. You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.
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#90. When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.
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#91. if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.
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#92. I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.
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#93. Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.
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#94. The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths.
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#95. You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.
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#96. You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.
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#97. you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget
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#98. The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
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#99. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.
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#100. I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminate all of the perpetually open tabs and multiple bookmarking services. It's also all automatically backed up to Evernote, which gives me peace of mind.
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