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by Timothy Ferriss

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The important distinction is that between official rules and self-imposed rules.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It is often the case that you have to fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want.

having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. —SENECA