black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Tim Ferriss

If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
TIM FERRISS

Complete Criticism Hold Myself
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.
TIM FERRISS

Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
TIM FERRISS

Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
TIM FERRISS

Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
TIM FERRISS

Action Definition Greatness Negative Risk
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
TIM FERRISS

Correct Important Way Yourself
Exercise is overrated.
TIM FERRISS

Exercise One Liner
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
TIM FERRISS

Better Improvement Time Yourself
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
TIM FERRISS

Encouragement Inspirational Need People
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
TIM FERRISS

Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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.
TIM FERRISS

Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
TIM FERRISS

Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
TIM FERRISS

Enough Question Right Yourself
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
TIM FERRISS

Priority Time Truth Work Yourself
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.
TIM FERRISS

Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
TIM FERRISS

Future Past Small Step

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tim Ferriss Quotes