Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
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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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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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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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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
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Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"
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I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
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There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.
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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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Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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There is an infinite selection of things that I could test in life, so I generally will look for a critical mass of word that comes back to me. At this point I have hundreds of friends who are the best at what they do, arguably number one in the country or in the world. I will oftentimes just kind of throw a volley out to people, ask them what they're obsessing on or what they find interesting that's on the fringe. If the same answer comes back a few times, I'm like, "Okay."
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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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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There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.