537 Quotes by Tim Ferriss

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I’ve been there and.

If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.

If the best in the world are stretching their asses off in order to get strong, why aren’t you?

Borrow liberally, combine uniquely, and create your own bespoke blueprint.

Remember – boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.

If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” –Niels Bohr.

So much of the job is more emotion and ‘heart work’ than it is ‘head work.’ The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it’s not the head, and it’s not an intellectual activity.