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Quotes from 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
Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.
~ Timothy Ferriss
unless something is well-defined and important, no one should do it.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The New York Times titulado Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
~ Timothy Ferriss
You're too young." Most of history was built by young people. They just got credit when they were older.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Momentum: extensión de Chrome para facilitar la concentración.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where …" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. —LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
~ Timothy Ferriss
Lonfrote Deep Molded Sleep Mask is the best for airplanes or anywhere else.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Emptiness is the fasting of the mind." –Zhuang Zhou 4th century B.C.
~ Timothy Ferriss
sir.' The implication is obvious: If I have problems, I'm going to handle them. I'm going to take care of them, and I'm not going to complain. I took extreme ownership of my world. The way that worked was twofold. When I did need something, it was something significant, it was something real. And when I told the Commodore, 'Hey, boss, we need this right here,' I would get it almost instantaneously
~ Timothy Ferriss
Una vez que percibes el dolor agudo de las convicciones limitadoras que tienes en la actualidad, usas dos o tres convicciones sustitutorias para avanzar.
~ Timothy Ferriss
what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I
~ Timothy Ferriss
and forward thinker. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist—they're all great.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Wunderlist: app/herramienta de gestión de tareas pendientes para ayudarte a hacer cosas.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want. This is true of possessions and even time.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When you complain, nobody wants to help you,
~ Timothy Ferriss
The Beginning Is "heart work," not "head work" "So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes
~ Timothy Ferriss
I remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that very evening." Susan Cain
~ Timothy Ferriss
Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.
~ Timothy Ferriss