Timothy Ferriss Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Timothy Ferriss Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Dreamline Questions:— Timothy Ferriss
What are you good at?
What could you be the best at?
What makes you happy?
What excites you?
What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself?
What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it?
What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?
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 wish I would have known that there was no need to wait. I went to college. I went to law school. I worked in law and banking, though not for terribly long. But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.— Timothy Ferriss
You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.— 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
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Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.— Timothy Ferriss
If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.— 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
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
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
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
Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards,— 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 cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.— Timothy Ferriss
Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.— Timothy Ferriss
Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet. - Brooke Smith, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman— 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
(1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions:— 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
you never want to solve a research problem with language. You— 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
Simple works, complex fails.— 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
Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness.— 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
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
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
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
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
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
Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.— 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
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
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
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
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
In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.— Timothy Ferriss
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.— Timothy Ferriss
To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.— 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
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
Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.— 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
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
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
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.— 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
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.— Timothy Ferriss
We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus— Timothy Ferriss
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.— 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
Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.— 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
The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The— Timothy Ferriss
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner— Timothy Ferriss
I've found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People have heard that before, but I didn't realize how profound it could be until I did the actual testing with continuous glucose monitors. And I tested all different varieties and species of cinnamon from Ceylon to Saigon.— Timothy Ferriss
The first is the result of a decision to act - to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it's impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged. Fortune favors the bold. The second is the result of a decision of sloth - to not do something - wherein we refuse to change a bad situation out of fear despite having all the facts. This is how learning experiences become terminal punishments, bad relationships become bad marriages, and poor job choices become lifelong prison sentences.— Timothy Ferriss
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.— Timothy Ferriss
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.— 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
On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.— 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
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger— Timothy Ferriss
What would this look like if it were easy?— Timothy Ferriss
Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think.— Timothy Ferriss
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.— 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
Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.— 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 is possible to vastly compress most learning. In a surprising number of cases, it is possible to do something in 1-10 months that is assumed to take 1-10 years.— Timothy Ferriss
-The more you compress things, the more physical limiters become a bottleneck. All learning is physically limited. The brain is dependent on finite quantities of neurotransmitters, memories require REM and non-REM (NREM) sleep for consolidation, etc. The learning graph is not unlike the stress-recovery-hyperadaptation curves of weight training.
-The more extreme your ambition, just as in sports, the more you need performance enhancement via unusual schedules, diet, drugs, etc.
-Most important: due to the bipolar nature of the learning process, you can forecast setbacks. If you don't, you increase the likelihood of losing morale and quitting before the inflection point.
Being busy is not the same as being productive.— 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
Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.— 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
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
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.— 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
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
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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 strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.— 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
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
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.' Think— 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
Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.— 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
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
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
I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.— Timothy Ferriss
There has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.— 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
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.— Timothy Ferriss
It's not enough to use information for "something" - it needs to be immediate and important.— 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
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
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
The blog post I point people to the most is called 'First, Ten,' and it is a simple theory of marketing that says: tell ten people, show ten people, share it with ten people; ten people who already trust you and already like you. If they don't tell anybody else, it's not that good and you should start over. If they do tell other people, you're on your way." TO— 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
Sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does.— 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
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
