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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": -- Timothy Ferriss
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is. -- Timothy Ferriss
You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well. -- Timothy Ferriss
Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell. -- Timothy Ferriss
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.' -- Timothy Ferriss
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Timothy Ferriss
People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however -- Timothy Ferriss
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Simple works, complex fails. -- Timothy Ferriss
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. -- Timothy Ferriss
It's not enough to use information for "something" - it needs to be immediate and important. -- Timothy Ferriss
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit. -- Timothy Ferriss
Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe. -- Timothy Ferriss
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - WILLIAM GIBSON, -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger -- Timothy Ferriss
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. -- Timothy Ferriss
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs. -- Timothy Ferriss
I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier. -- Timothy Ferriss
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst. -- Timothy Ferriss
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you. -- Timothy Ferriss
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. -- Timothy Ferriss
As author P. J. O'Rourke puts it: Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive. -- Timothy Ferriss
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient? -- Timothy Ferriss
The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. -- Timothy Ferriss
Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits. -- Timothy Ferriss
Age doesn't matter: an open mind does. -- Timothy Ferriss
I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday. -- Timothy Ferriss
Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data. -- Timothy Ferriss
We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years. -- Timothy Ferriss
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles. -- Timothy Ferriss
The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Being busy is not the same as being productive. -- Timothy Ferriss
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense. -- Timothy Ferriss
What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive? -- Timothy Ferriss
There has never been a better time for testing the uncommon. -- Timothy Ferriss
The stars will never align -- Timothy Ferriss
I use [Palumbo's] protein powder, by Species Nutrition. Every morning, I roll downstairs and: 2 scoops of whey protein [Isolyze], ice, a bunch of powdered Starbucks coffee, some macadamia nut oil, and I make a shake. That's the start. -- Timothy Ferriss
Tactics are great, but tactics become commoditized." TF: If you understand principles, you can create tactics. If you are dependent on perishable tactics, you are always at a disadvantage. This is why Ramit studies behavioral psychology and the elements of persuasion that appear hardwired. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it. -- Timothy Ferriss
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
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? -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
People, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication. -- Timothy Ferriss
I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical. -- Timothy Ferriss
If you let pride stop you, you will hate life -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. - YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia -- Timothy Ferriss
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. - BILL WATTERSON, -- Timothy Ferriss
Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial. -- Timothy Ferriss
What would this look like if it were easy? -- Timothy Ferriss
But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first]. -- Timothy Ferriss
Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet. - Brooke Smith, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman -- Timothy Ferriss
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes. -- Timothy Ferriss
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from. -- Timothy Ferriss
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
Fasting essentially slows (sometimes stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation." There -- Timothy Ferriss
Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded ... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them. -- Timothy Ferriss
Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it. -- Timothy Ferriss
Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had. -- Timothy Ferriss
May all of your creations have just the right flavor, -- Timothy Ferriss
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want. -- Timothy Ferriss
For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work. -- Timothy Ferriss
Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you. -- Timothy Ferriss
What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it. -- Timothy Ferriss
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class. -- Timothy Ferriss
all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Time is wasted because there is so much time available. -- Timothy Ferriss
Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there. -- Timothy Ferriss
I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison? -- Timothy Ferriss
Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking. -- Timothy Ferriss
Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout. -- Timothy Ferriss
Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses. -- Timothy Ferriss
don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now? -- Timothy Ferriss
Many a false step was made by standing still. -- Timothy Ferriss
Love, be loved, and never stop learning - -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid. -- Timothy Ferriss
People who avoid criticism will fail. -- Timothy Ferriss
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
you never want to solve a research problem with language. You -- Timothy Ferriss
SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. - STAR TREK -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - ROBERT FROST, -- Timothy Ferriss
First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your "minimal customer base," is what creates good products and prevents returns. -- Timothy Ferriss
Focus on being productive instead of busy. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. -- Timothy Ferriss
The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The -- Timothy Ferriss
We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus -- Timothy Ferriss
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven. -- Timothy Ferriss
Lazy: A Manifesto -- Timothy Ferriss
Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
I work hard, but in spurts. -- Timothy Ferriss
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. -- Timothy Ferriss
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? -- Timothy Ferriss
Sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Refuse to accept partial completeness. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 -- Timothy Ferriss
Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Stay humble or get humbled. -- Timothy Ferriss
Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity. -- Timothy Ferriss
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that. -- Timothy Ferriss
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths. -- Timothy Ferriss
(1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions: -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language. -- Timothy Ferriss
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.' -- Timothy Ferriss
Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks. -- Timothy Ferriss
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks. -- Timothy Ferriss
You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better. -- Timothy Ferriss
The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot. -- Timothy Ferriss
You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.' - Timothy Leary. -- Timothy Ferriss
Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story. -- Timothy Ferriss
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? -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt. -- Timothy Ferriss
Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between. -- Timothy Ferriss
There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer. -- Timothy Ferriss
As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes? -- Timothy Ferriss
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. - BILL COSBY -- Timothy Ferriss
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, -- Timothy Ferriss
Far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both. -- Timothy Ferriss
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me? -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should. -- Timothy Ferriss
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take -- Timothy Ferriss
Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale -- Timothy Ferriss
Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy. -- Timothy Ferriss
What gets measured gets managed. - PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author -- Timothy Ferriss
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving. -- Timothy Ferriss
Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes. -- Timothy Ferriss
The Conquest of Happiness -- Timothy Ferriss
Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach. -- Timothy Ferriss
If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are. -- Timothy Ferriss
CREATIVITY IS AN INFINITE RESOURCE. THE MORE YOU SPEND, THE MORE YOU HAVE." This -- Timothy Ferriss
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important. -- Timothy Ferriss
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. -- Timothy Ferriss
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. -- Timothy Ferriss
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
Dark means DARK. "They've done studies where they shine a laser on the back of someone's knee, and people pick it up. It's light. You cannot have your phone in your room. You cannot have a TV in your room. It needs to be black, black as night. -- Timothy Ferriss
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. - OSCAR WILDE -- Timothy Ferriss
Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards, -- Timothy Ferriss
To justify their avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive scientific studies," that black is white. -- Timothy Ferriss
The Standard Pace is for chumps. -- Timothy Ferriss
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. -- Timothy Ferriss
What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are? -- Timothy Ferriss
The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines. -- Timothy Ferriss
Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon. -- Timothy Ferriss
You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious. -- Timothy Ferriss
Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out. -- Timothy Ferriss
Just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information. -- Timothy Ferriss
Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher. -- Timothy Ferriss
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. -- Timothy Ferriss
If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away. -- Timothy Ferriss
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. - PAULA POUNDSTONE -- Timothy Ferriss
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. -- Timothy Ferriss
You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them. -- Timothy Ferriss
No one owes you anything. -- Timothy Ferriss
Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done. -- Timothy Ferriss
