Timothy Ferriss quote: "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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask w...
HUGH 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

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

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

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

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a goo...
TIMOTHY WEST

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe...
TIMOTHY NOAH

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lull...
TIMOTHY ZAHN

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things do...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultima...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an impor...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
TIMOTHY LEARY

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin p...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
TIMOTHY NOAH

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and camer...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticate...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp...
TIMOTHY NOAH

For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct? Is it, that ...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT

To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.
TIMOTHY CHILDERS

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
TIMOTHY LUCE

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
TIMOTHY VIRKKALA

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up wit...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If A...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.
TIMOTHY FIRNSTAHL

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
TIMOTHY GALLWEY

Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ne...
TIMOTHY LEARY

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between d...
TIMOTHY BENTLEY

Science is all metaphor.
TIMOTHY LEARY

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humani...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death wh...
TIMOTHY JONES

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they c...
TIMOTHY DEXTER

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
TIMOTHY LEARY

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sou...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes b...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and wa...
TIMOTHY DALTON

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican admini...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potentia...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. H...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Spec...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with pap...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in time...
TIMOTHY DALTON

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange a...
TIMOTHY DALTON

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some typ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to p...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the wor...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
TIMOTHY NOAH

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecu...
TIMOTHY WEST

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to hi...
TIMOTHY WEST

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over ...
TIMOTHY GRIFFIN

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
TIMOTHY NOAH

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, jus...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autono...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secret...
TIMOTHY WEST

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn'...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal governmen...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional l...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recogni...
TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.
TIMOTHY ZAHN

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests,...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call cent...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law an...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare ...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossov...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent a...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but sev...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
TIMOTHY NOAH

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
TIMOTHY LEARY

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country aroun...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies t...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
TIMOTHY NOAH

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color...
TIMOTHY NOAH

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict tourin...
TIMOTHY WEST

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I...
TIMOTHY LEARY

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
TIMOTHY LEARY

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants o...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

John Doe No. 2 .
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

just keep your sense of humor and be yourself.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people b...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would....
TIMOTHY HUTTON

The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frost...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

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.

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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.

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