Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Tim Ferriss

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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.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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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Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
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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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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Easy Enjoyment Examination Intense Life Money Myself Necessary
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.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
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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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
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
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
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 ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself

Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

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