Tim Ferriss Quotes

I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I've had to find my sanity.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, one night at a time. I'm not usually up during the day.

A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Me, helping people stay in a good state of mind, is actually what I'm good at and what I do.

I do a form of meditation every day anyway.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.