Tim Ferriss Quotes
There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). 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.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
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I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
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Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
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One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.
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Evolution is your solution.
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There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). 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.
