Quotes of Tim - somelinesforyou

“ Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ Focus on impact, not approval. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ Lack of time is lack of priorities. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ The most important actions are never comfortable. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ No hurry, no pause. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ I want to measure twice, and cut once; therefore, the vast majority of my important work is deciding what to work on. ”

- Tim Ferriss

“ Tomorrow becomes never. ”

- Unknown

“ I’m eight days into fasting so if I sound like an idiot I’m gonna blame it on that. ”

- Unknown

“ This is something that is – being true to oneself – I think that most people struggle with. ”

- Unknown

“ To the pregnant void of infinite possibilities, only possible with a lack of obligation, or at least, no compulsive reactivity. ”

- Unknown

“ Friction points and single points of failure happen in any given day potentially, so think in a concise, intelligent way. ”

- Unknown

“ From 2008 to 2009, I began to ask myself, “What if I could only subtract to solve problems?” when advising startups. ”

- Unknown

“ If you want to create or be anything lateral, bigger, better, or truly different, you need room to ask “what if?” without a conference call in 15 minutes. ”

- Unknown

“ After reading The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch, I decided that extreme questions were the forcing function I needed. ”

- Unknown

“ I tend to focus on the 80-20 analysis as it applies to people getting on and off the ground as quickly as possible to say be on top 5 to 10% of the general population. ”

- Unknown

“ The world doesn’t even hiccup, much less end, when you cut the information umbilical cord. ”

- Unknown

“ More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice. ”

- Unknown

“ For me, it’s been getting over that resistance to what I perceived as sort of a “woo-woo new agey” type of thing and the ability to sort of view it as sort of a warm bath for the mind where I’m taking a mini vacation from my own brain in a way. ”

- Unknown

“ I started meditating and gave up meditating many many times because I had the response that you mentioned about type A personalities. ”

- Unknown

“ All I did was think about my todo list the entire time, that’s fine, as long as I’m paying attention to my breath. ”

- Unknown

“ What I found was that by allowing the thoughts to occur and not judging myself because let’s say I’m thinking about email, or the grocery shopping and the todo or whatever, just letting that happen but getting good at observing it, I was able to then have more emotional awareness which would prevent cognitive biases and bad judgments. ”

- Unknown

“ After meditating consistently for even a week or so, when that anger would start I was better at observing “Tim” as a 3rd person “Oh look at that, Tim is getting angry at something really small and stupid” as opposed to simply becoming angry and then causing problems for myself whether it was just internal or interacting with people. ”

- Unknown

“ The decision was obvious to me. ”

- Unknown

“ As often happens at forks in the path — college graduation, quarter-life crisis, midlife crisis, kids leaving home, retirement — questions started to bubble to the surface. ”

- Unknown

“ Question 1. ”

- What is the book

“ It all came down to learning how to spread a “meme“, an idea virus that captures imaginations and takes on a life of its own. ”

- Unknown

“ You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. ”

- Jim Rohn
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