Tim Ferriss on action
Tim Ferriss85 quotes“The most important actions are never comfortable.”
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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 FerrissTim Ferriss 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 FerrissTim Ferriss If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss 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 FerrissTim Ferriss An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.
George HarrisonGeorge Harrison It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SophoclesSophocles What thou seest, speak of with caution.
SolonSolon That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
SolonSolon I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Speech is the mirror of action.
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