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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 978d6e5 | Anticipate, don't react. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3e3d867 | 3--When in doubt, starve it of oxygen. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1ab92a4 | Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had. | Artillery | ||
| 5e010e0 | 4--If you respond, don't over-apologize. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5d91f91 | The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help. I read it and upgraded my life in an afternoon of asking for help. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0aa1635 | the importance of creating large, uninterrupted blocks of time, during which your mind can wander, ponder, and find the signal amidst the noise. If you're lucky, it might even create a signal, or connect two signals (core ideas) that have never shaken hands before. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0214470 | Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eb8d55b | 1) To get huge, good things done, you need to be okay with letting the small, bad things happen. 2) People's IQs seem to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fdd9761 | What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cfb1239 | We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d098beb | Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance," | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1717a96 | Wine is a grocery, not a luxury. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 36729fd | Sometimes, the clues that you put outwardly are too subtle to be heard, or someone is just talking louder than you. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 895073a | the best thing to do is give people questions they're not expecting. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b88074c | Write everything down because it's all very fleeting. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 00618be | What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? When in doubt, let kindness and compassion guide you. And don't be afraid to fail." -- | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5c75954 | beauty has become a modern-day superdrug, that with filtered and face-tuned social media, retouched models on advertisements, and rampant pornography, we've overloaded the senses so that our natural instincts can no longer recognize or react to real beauty anymore. And it's making us confused and miserable, both in how we judge ourselves and how we judge others. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 01fe1e2 | In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3860ebd | It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| aff552d | On Fixing Physical Weaknesses LAIRD: "All you flexible people should go bang some iron, and all you big weight lifters should go do some yoga. . . . We always gravitate toward our strengths because we want to be in our glory." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1f2ea16 | What gets measured gets managed. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2a2705b | A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted, being worried. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d2262f5 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."--Mark Twain" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 44a604e | 1--What if I did the opposite for 48 hours? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a7d4aa6 | I'm sorry to hear that. You know, I've been taking your insults for a while now, and it's unfortunate that it seems we won't be able to do business anymore. I'd recommend you take a good look at where this unhappiness and anger is actually coming from. In any case, I wish you well. If you would like to order product, we'll be happy to supply it, but only if you can conduct yourself without profanity and unnecessary insults. You have our fax.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2e902c4 | 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 | ||
| 5eb258f | If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 26ef3d9 | If you had a heart attack and had to work two hours per day, what would you do? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ac51b12 | If you had a second heart attack and had to work two hours per week, what would you do? 3. If you had a gun to your head and had to stop doing 4/5 of different time-consuming activities, what would you remove? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 84ae766 | Don't panic. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 461069e | Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing? Identify: Positive friends versus time-consuming friends: Who is helping versus hurting you, and how do you increase your time with the former while decreasing or eliminating your time with the latter? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 87fd3b1 | Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ec3e98a | All of my biggest wins have come from leveraging strengths instead of fixing weaknesses. Investing is hard enough without having to change your core behaviors. Don't push a boulder uphill just because you can. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 97898f5 | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. For females: West with the Night by Beryl Markham. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a0ef7bc | dilettante, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6be4c8a | determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want), | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 894af92 | Una barrita de proteinas Clif Builder de veinte gramos con sabor a chocolate y mantequilla de cacahuete. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c812534 | One of the books he recommends for cultivating dealmaking ability is actually a children's book and a 10-minute read: Stone Soup. "It's a children's story that is the best MBA degree you can read." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eaaf4df | There needs to be one decisive reason, and then the worthiness of the trip needs to be measured against that one reason. If I go, then we can backfill into the schedule all the other secondary activities. But if I go for a blended reason, I'll almost surely come back and feel like it was a waste of time. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dec4caf | If I asked you to spend $1 billion improving the world, solving a problem, what would you pursue? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 10e020c | I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 27028b7 | 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? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6c770ea | The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 36b7489 | What are domino foods? Foods that could be acceptable if humans had strict portion control, but that are disallowed because practically none of us do. Common domino foods include: Chickpeas Peanut butter Salted cashews Alcohol Domino triggers aren't limited to food. For some people, if they play 15 minutes of World of Warcraft, they'll play 15 hours. It's 0 or 15 hours. | Timothy Ferriss |