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 FERRISSMost people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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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.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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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.
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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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