Tim Ferriss Quotes

Many a false step is made standing still.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.