Timothy Ferriss quotes - page 5

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it. (Timothy Ferriss)
The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
Timothy Ferriss
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.
Timothy Ferriss
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
Timothy Ferriss
You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.
Timothy Ferriss
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
Timothy Ferriss
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
Timothy Ferriss
If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.
Timothy Ferriss
For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.
Timothy Ferriss
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
Timothy Ferriss
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses. (Timothy Ferriss)
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
Timothy Ferriss
Life is too short to be small.
Timothy Ferriss
Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
Timothy Ferriss
Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
Timothy Ferriss
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
Timothy Ferriss
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
Timothy Ferriss
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Timothy Ferriss
Remember-boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
Timothy Ferriss
I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.
Timothy Ferriss
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together. (Timothy Ferriss)
What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.
Timothy Ferriss