black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

Tim Ferriss

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
TIM FERRISS

Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
TIM FERRISS

Box Enough Passive Thinking
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
TIM FERRISS

Count Difficult Learning
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.
TIM FERRISS

Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
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
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
TIM FERRISS

Fix Focus Strength Weakness
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
TIM FERRISS

Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
TIM FERRISS

Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
TIM FERRISS

Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
TIM FERRISS

Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
TIM FERRISS

Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
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
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
TIM FERRISS

Place See Solution Yourself
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
TIM FERRISS

Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
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
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
TIM FERRISS

Diet Information Need Time
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 FERRISS

Dreams Hold People Trouble
Many a false step was made by standing still.
TIM FERRISS

Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
TIM FERRISS

Important Task Time
The most important actions are never comfortable.
TIM FERRISS

Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
TIM FERRISS

Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
TIM FERRISS

Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
TIM FERRISS

Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
TIM FERRISS

Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
TIM FERRISS

Assumption Big Smart Time Work
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
TIM FERRISS

Happiness People Uncertain

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tim Ferriss Quotes