Top 100 Timothy Ferriss Quotes
#1. 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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#4. 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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#5. You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To
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#6. I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
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#10. 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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#11. Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
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#15. In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
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#16. Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.
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#17. Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
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#18. If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.
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#19. One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.
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#20. 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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#22. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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#24. Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
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#25. In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.
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#26. For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the best SEO," as Robert Scoble originally told me. You
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#27. It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
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#28. Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.
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#29. Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet. - Brooke Smith, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman
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#30. 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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#31. Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.
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#32. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.
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#33. One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
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#34. Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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#35. When you're the first in a new category, promote the category. In essence, you have no competition. DEC told its prospects why they ought to buy a minicomputer, not a DEC minicomputer. In
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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. Just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information.
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#39. 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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#40. I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.
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#41. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things - the people on the edge see them first." - Kurt Vonnegut
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#42. To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.
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#43. 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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#44. Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.
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#45. take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.
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#46. To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
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#47. Sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does.
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#48. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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#49. You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.' - Timothy Leary.
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#50. all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
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#51. 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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#52. The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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#53. 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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#54. Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.
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#55. 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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#56. Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.
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#57. Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
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#58. You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice.
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#61. we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The
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#63. If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.
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#64. something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.
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#65. You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
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#66. But not having cable or the Internet turns out to be cheaper than having them. And nature is still technically free, even if human beings have tried to make access to it expensive. Time and quiet should not be luxury items.
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#67. 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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#68. Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. - DAVE BARRY
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#69. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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#70. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right - it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or enriched.
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#71. The student who elects to risk it all - which is nothing - to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.
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#73. Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.
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#74. Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
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#75. Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
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#76. I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.
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#77. Fasting essentially slows (sometimes stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation." There
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#78. Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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#80. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. - OSCAR WILDE
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#82. The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
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#83. everything changes. Snow becomes water. It's beautiful because it changes. Things are fleeting. It felt so beautiful to be part of this weird world in that moment. I felt part of the world again, rather than removed from it. It
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#84. 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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#85. What gets measured gets managed. - PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author
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#86. Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
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#88. I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'
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#89. It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. The first month cost perhaps $200 more than if I had been micromanaging.
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#90. 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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#91. Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
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#92. you never want to solve a research problem with language. You
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#93. I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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#95. For a long time, I've known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.
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#96. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through
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#97. The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
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#98. 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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#99. Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
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#100. 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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