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Work Quotes by Tim Ferriss
- Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
- If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I…
- At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney…
- If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
- Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your…
- The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try…
- I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
- Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.
- Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
- The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I…
- Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
- There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
- What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
- Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
- Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
- Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.
- Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
- Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
- For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
- I work hard, but in spurts.
- The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
- Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
- By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love…
- Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach