Common life Quote by Tim Ferriss

“To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.”

Tim Ferriss

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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves

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I learned to associate discomfort with getting better. And that transcended wrestling and applied to a lot of other things in life.

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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

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Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from…

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People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value…

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

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Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they…

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Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice… When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty…

David Hume

The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or…

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“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam…

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