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.
TIM FERRISSThink big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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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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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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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.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Exercise is overrated.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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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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The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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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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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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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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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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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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