Tim Ferriss

“Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.”

“Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.”

“I was never the most technical wrestler. But my coaches definitely instilled in me the belief that if you can push yourself and practice smarter than the other guy, you can beat him.”

“The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.”

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

“It's very easy to say, 'Well, hey, you should wake up at 4:30 in the morning and do what ABCD people do.' Just because it works for one person, just because it works for even many people, does not mean it will necessarily work for you.”

“It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop.”

“A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.”

“If you do something as simple as 15-minute ice baths three days a week, and you time those baths properly, you can significantly multiply your fat loss.”

“I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.”

“At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.”

“The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.”

“If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.”

“What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.”

“I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found.”

“Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.”

“I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.”

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

“The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.”

“I work hard, but in spurts.”