“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "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, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“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, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Slow Dance:
Have you ever watched kids, On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain, Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance too fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day, On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, With the next hundred chores, Running through your head? You'd better slow down, Don't dance too fast. Time is short, The music won't last. Ever told your child we'll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die, Cause you never had time, To call and say Hi? You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. When you run so fast to get somewhere, You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower. Hear the music, Before the song is over.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“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, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Many a false step was made by standing still.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“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.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Life is too short to be small.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“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, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
“Pacifists become militants.
Freedom fighters become tyrants.
Blessings become curses.
Help becomes hindrance.
More becomes less.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
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“That grin of his was torture on the balls.”
― Jack L. Pyke, quote from Antidote
“Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Hasta algunas de las obras de caridad más sencillas tienen consecuencias negativas que incrementan el control por parte del gobierno y la irresponsabilidad de este.”
― Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, quote from The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
“Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”
I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? “Not really.”
“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,” she said. “It’s a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces—the pawns—are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play, I protect my pawns.”
“Why?” I said, not entirely sure where this conversation was going. “If they’re weak, then what’s the point?”
“They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they’ll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you’re careful—if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your opponent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?”
I shook my head, and she smiled.
“Your pawn becomes a queen.” She touched my cheek, her fingers cold as ice. “Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game. Never forget that, all right? Never forget the potential one solitary pawn has to change the entire game.”
― Aimee Carter, quote from Pawn
“might almost be termed personalities, "may not be familiar to a couple of dud acrobats”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Works of P. G. Wodehouse
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