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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.

Tim Ferriss

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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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
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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Dreams Hold People Trouble
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.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
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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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself
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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Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational

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