Tim Ferriss Quotes

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you hear yourself trying to piece it out and have it make sense to you. The process itself is so bizarre and mysterious that you never know what it's going to tell you.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.