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The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life QUOTES

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life QUOTES

1 " Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

2 " It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

3 " What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

4 " A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

5 " Career specialists can’t externalize what they’ve internalized. Second nature is hard to teach. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

6 " I’d helped kick caffeine withdrawal the week before. I’d given him an l-tyrosine cocktail and, "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

7 " And when you lose more than a few clothing sizes, just remember to put on a bit of Gotu Kola cream to minimize stretch marks, as Olympic strength coach Charles Poliquin recommends. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

8 " Age doesn't matter: an open mind does. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

9 " In cooking—as in business and war—hope for the best but plan for the worst. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

10 " Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

11 " You don’t need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

12 " What we really need to do, to design, is look at the extremes. The weakest, or the person with arthritis, or the athlete, or the strongest, the fastest person, because if we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself.” In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

13 " I overhear Bobby Flay say, “Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.” I "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

14 " I eventually learned to cook by focusing on two principles. Both of them apply to all learning and will be your constant companions throughout this book: failure points and the margin of safety. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

15 " sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn’t matter; an open mind does. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

16 " Herbs? Herbs are from the leaves and stems of plants. Spices, on the other hand, are from the root, bark, and seeds. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

17 " use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

18 " Here’s a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don’t know. What? Person A: The “average” net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars! "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

19 " As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, “I use lemon like I use salt.” Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it’s probably acid. "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

20 " Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don’t know. What? Person A: The “average” net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!2 "

― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life