Tim Ferriss Quotes
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It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
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Life is too short to be small.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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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.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: Define a short to-do list and define a not-to-do list.
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Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Seemingly unrelated things that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.
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You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.