Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
TIM FERRISSThe way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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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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Reality is negotiable.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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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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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.
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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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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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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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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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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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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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If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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