Hugh Ferriss quote: "As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!"

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York e...
HUGH FERRISS

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sight...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to r...
TIM FERRISS

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIM FERRISS

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the dam...
TIM FERRISS

When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hu...
TIM FERRISS

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite int...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourse...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. First...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three cu...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock a...
TIM FERRISS

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When...
TIM FERRISS

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIM FERRISS

Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other ...
TIM FERRISS

Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. First...
TIM FERRISS

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite int...
TIM FERRISS

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class ...
TIM FERRISS

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more r...
TIM FERRISS

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIM FERRISS

I've found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People hav...
TIM FERRISS

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same ...
TIM FERRISS

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
TIM FERRISS

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my ...
TIM FERRISS

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in s...
TIM FERRISS

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no ...
TIM FERRISS

Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
TIM FERRISS

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is ...
TIM FERRISS

Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
TIM FERRISS

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIM FERRISS

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I...
TIM FERRISS

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIM FERRISS

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which...
TIM FERRISS

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together ...
TIM FERRISS

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or t...
TIM FERRISS

I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminat...
TIM FERRISS

There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters,...
TIM FERRISS

The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIM FERRISS

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which ...
TIM FERRISS

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effe...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, intere...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usua...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive t...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
TIMOTHY FERRISS

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home ...
TIM FERRISS

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of tha...
TIM FERRISS

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a sk...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indica...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotion...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over persona...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Life is too short to be small.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Focus on being productive instead of busy.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the righ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would e...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
HUGH HEFNER

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ...
HUGH JACKMAN

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;...
HUGH JACKMAN

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It d...
HUGH JACKMAN

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and reali...
HUGH JACKMAN

I'm not a loner at all.
HUGH JACKMAN

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you ...
HUGH JACKMAN

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy...
HUGH JACKMAN

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
HUGH JACKMAN

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of...
HUGH JACKMAN

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
HUGH JACKMAN

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I t...
HUGH JACKMAN

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
HUGH JACKMAN

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i...
HUGH JACKMAN

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
HUGH JACKMAN

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro...
HUGH HEFNER

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
HUGH HEFNER

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, w...
HUGH HEFNER

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the upri...
HUGH MASEKELA

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs....
HUGH EVANS

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT

Love expands.
HUGH PRATHER

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen...
HUGH EVANS

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and ...
HUGH HEFNER

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
HUGH HEFNER

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
HUGH PRATHER

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN

Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...
HUGH DOWNS

If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
HUGH NIBLEY

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE

I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets...
HUGH JACKMAN

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE

Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE

Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w...
HUGH JACKMAN

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It g...
HUGH JACKMAN

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR

It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people pre...
HUGH MACKAY

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser...
HUGH MACKAY

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal litera...
HUGH MACKAY

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familia...
HUGH MACKAY

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people...
HUGH MACKAY

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
HUGH MACKAY

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

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As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

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