Tim Ferriss on ignorance
Tim Ferriss85 quotes“Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”
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Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Reality is negotiable.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
George TakeiGeorge Takei Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.
Kelly ClarksonKelly Clarkson Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen
