Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
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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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You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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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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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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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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The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
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I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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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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Exercise is overrated.