Tim Ferriss Quotes

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

Day-to-day scheduling is always a conflict. You go, "Oh, I want to go to that awards show because when am I ever going to do that again?" But then you go, "Yeah...except this other thing is more important." It's more the micro day-to-day stuff that becomes a daily task as opposed to worrying too much about the career.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.