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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87fbc53 | Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" --SENECA" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0ea5647 | First of all, if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done. Second, if this book were all stern looks and no winks, all productivity and no grab-assing, you'd remember very little. I agree with Tony Robbins (page 210) that information without emotion isn't retained. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bf9d01f | I can wait" - Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" - Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ebffb0a | To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 994facc | Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7f2c6e1 | Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort. I'll run through walls to get a .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4ab4cb8 | I never had any ambition other than to go to sea. | Arthur Rostron | ||
| fb26783 | Inspections should be taken seriously and should be by no means cursory. | Arthur Rostron | ||
| de2500f | I read about it in Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room, written by James Carville and Paul Begala, the political strategists behind Bill Clinton's presidential campaign "war room." Here's the excerpt that stuck with me: Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but this is a book about strategy, not id.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e5a6f4d | But then I got into Joseph Campbell--The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell was the first person to really open my eyes to [the] compassionate side of life, or of thought. . . . Campbell was the guy who really kind of put it all together for me, and not in a way I could put my finger on. . . . It made you just glad to be alive, [realizing] how vast this world is, and how similar and how different we are." * Mo.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f306561 | They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." --Mexican proverb There are some secrets we don't share because they're embarrassing. Like that time I met Naval Ravikant (page 546) by accidentally hitting on his girlfriend at a coffee shop? Oops. Or the time a celebrity panelist borrowed my laptop to project a boring corporate video, and a flicker of porn popped up--a la Fight Club--in front of a crowd of 400 people? Another good ex.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4caac7e | Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e87949f | The Director's Chair is with Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc.), and Robert refers later to this quote from Francis: "Failure is not necessarily durable. Remember that the things that they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give lifetime achievement awards for when you're old." ROBERT: "Even if I didn't sell Mariachi, I would have learned so much by doing that project. That was the idea--I'.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b056dc3 | 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 else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f2c8c89 | Do you have any quotes that you live your life by or think of often? "We are simultaneously gods and worms."--Abraham Maslow * Advice to your 25-or 30-year-old self? "I would encourage my younger self to just not be afraid, right? To realize that a lot of things that were--I don't want to say crippling anxieties, but--definitely ever-pervasive fears in my life growing up were unnecessary. A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 16e873a | But if you don't cultivate 'turning it on' as a way of life in the little moments--and there are hundreds of times more little moments than big--then there's no chance in the big moments. . . . I believe that when you're not cultivating quality, you're essentially cultivating sloppiness. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f5ed176 | I do want to live a brave life. I do want to live in the arena. And if you're going to live in the arena, the only guarantee is you will get your ass kicked. . . . Daring greatly is being vulnerable. So when you ask yourself, 'Did I dare greatly today?' The big question I ask is, 'When I had the opportunity, did I choose courage over comfort? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fc6891b | There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey. Every single book that is in the bookstore deals with these four archetypes, these four themes. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 70cdfad | when you're going 10% bigger, you're competing against everybody. Everybody's trying to go 10% bigger. When you're trying to go 10 times bigger, you're there by yourself. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 78d0e60 | buscar un mercado antes de idear un producto es mas inteligente que lo contrario. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b93eff9 | Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 21c50a6 | Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| abf62d9 | Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter. I | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 67db685 | I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b9d29e7 | Being busy is a form of laziness--lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b67a2cd | Mas no es mejor, y dejar algo a medias suele ser 10 veces mejor que terminarlo. Acostumbrate a no terminar lo que sea aburrido o improductivo si un jefe no te lo pide. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 68b27fa | Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dea9821 | Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplify, simplify. . . . A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." --Henry David Thoreau, Walden" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b796454 | Love of bustle is not industry. --SENECA | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cee9d9d | There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5798d76 | What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your trade or area of expertise? "' Follow your dreams.' It's impossible to do without self-knowledge, which takes years. You discover your 'dream' (or sense of purpose) in the very act of walking the path, which is guided by equal parts choice and chance." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a457961 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain. This" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 92cfba5 | Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c5fb188 | Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY, pioneer | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5878db7 | you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . . | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 27a7905 | Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cdef105 | You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5501803 | Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --RALPH CHARELL | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3252455 | Everyone struggles. Take solace in that. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 82d517b | THE VALUE OF 5-10-MINUTE BREAKS The serial position effect refers to improved recall observed at the beginnings and ends of lists. Separately, these are called the primacy effect and recency effect, respectively. Memorizing a hypothetical list of 20 words, your recall might look something like this: This mid-list dip can be observed in study sessions as well, so a 90-minute session might resemble the below graph: We can dramatically improve.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 63c938d | After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon. | Arthur Sullivan | ||
| dc2ceef | All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. | Arthur Symons | ||
| c326b27 | My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring. | Arthur Symons | ||
| 33b21b2 | As I write this, I'm sitting in a cafe in Paris overlooking the Luxembourg Garden, just off of Rue Saint-Jacques. Rue Saint-Jacques is likely the oldest road in Paris, and it has a rich literary history. Victor Hugo lived a few blocks from where I'm sitting. Gertrude Stein drank coffee and F. Scott Fitzgerald socialized within a stone's throw. Hemingway wandered up and down the sidewalks, his books percolating in his mind, wine no doubt per.. | Timothy Ferriss |