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.
TIM FERRISSIf you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Exercise is overrated.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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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.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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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.
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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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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.
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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
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It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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