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| 5942749 | And he loved my mother. I saw him on the last days of his life lift that oil-scented right hand and enter its fingers into her ordered hair and rustle it free of its pins as if he had been offered velvet or the fur of a rare animal. Forever I hold that gesture. For me it was perhaps the last remembered pleasure belonging to him. It is the unspoiled core of whatever I know of love and family (and I have not been successful at the craft of it.. | Michael Ondaatje | ||
| 6b5656b | C]onvenience is one of the two dirty words of American cooking, reflecting the part of our national character that is easily bored; the other is 'gourmet.' Convenience foods demonstrate our supposed disdain for the routine and the mundane: 'I don't have time to cook.' The gourmet phase, which peaked in the eighties, when food was seen as art, showed our ability to obsess about aspects of daily life that most other cultures take for granted... | Mark Bittman | ||
| 247877e | In cooking--as in business and war--hope for the best but plan for the worst. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fdb52a1 | My goal is to learn things once and use them forever. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5fc16f0 | 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). | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 578dac7 | Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. . . . Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run--in the long-ru.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0e55e94 | 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 | ||
| 07f57a8 | By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. --ROBERT FROST, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0153582 | Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. --DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize-winning American humorist | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7880c59 | It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know--world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more--look at their life's journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eaaadff | The New Rich ( NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ae93700 | At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthle.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bca3a46 | Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5411fe9 | Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --ALBERT EINSTEIN | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dd2d0c7 | we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it." We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired th.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 152abc6 | Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. --DAVE BARRY | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9839684 | take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 92e8cfa | Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5c1ecec | Less Is Not Laziness Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 94328a9 | Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 845492c | Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a42903b | Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4357a7e | When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b6f7d69 | So red teaming is: You take people who aren't wedded to the plan and [ask them,] 'How would you disrupt this plan or how would you defeat this plan?' If you have a very thoughtful red team, you'll produce stunning results. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6070a49 | Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. ." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fe3cbf7 | The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions will reflect special interests rather than the general interest. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 31b5f55 | The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm. | Milton Friedman | ||
| fb0dc25 | Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. | Milton Friedman | ||
| c231bf6 | The company you keep is important. If you leave your coat in a room where people are smoking, pretty soon it will smell of smoke. If you leave it outside in the garden, later on, when you bring it indoors, it will carry with it the fragrance of fresh air and flowers. "Such is the case with the mind. Your garment of thoughts absorbs the vibrations of those with whom you mix." | Swami Kriyananda | ||
| 0caa0e0 | Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 8c49bee | just imagine!" I ejaculated." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 3dfcd64 | Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 9d2f5b0 | Keen intelligence is two-edged," Master once remarked in reference to Kumar's brilliant mind. "It may be used constructively or destructively, like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate oneself. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| b145a3f | It is never a question of belief; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true. The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 218ef05 | Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both, | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| a62157e | To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity! | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| bff9b4e | What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| bc2132e | Without the family, we are helpless before the State. | family | G.K. Chesterton | |
| e4c5f5a | There's another thing you've got to remember. You talk about these highbrows having a higher art and a more philosophical drama. But remember what a lot of the philosophy is! Remember what sort of conduct those highbrows often present to the highest! All about the Will to Power and the Right to Live and the Right to Experience -- damned nonsense and more than damned nonsense -- nonsense that can damn." Father" | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f89f9b2 | Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, an.. | deception disguise | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8990932 | There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical. Revolt in the abstract is - revolting. It's mere vomiting." | rebellious revolt sick | G.K. Chesterton | |
| e30d683 | It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 576298c | All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of Man. They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b35ffec | There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely. | G.K. Chesterton |