Tim Ferriss Quotes

I know I have pretty good instincts.

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

We are wiser than we know.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

Intelligent decisions may fail you but one's instincts cannot.

As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.