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161 " To find the right things, we’ll need to go to the garden. "
― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Workweek
162 " Most who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that their course will improve with time or increases in income. This seems valid and is a tempting hallucination when a job is boring or uninspiring instead of pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization. Do you really think it will improve or is it wishful thinking and an excuse for inaction? If you were confident in improvement, would you really be questioning things so? Generally not. This is fear of the unknown disguised as optimism. Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? "
163 " 1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important. "
164 " Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets "
165 " Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. —RALPH CHARELL "
166 " Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.4 Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want. "
167 " Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination. "
168 " Exact numbers aren’t needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. It is often the case that you have to fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want. This isn’t being mean; it is being practical. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. "
169 " There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON, "
170 " Lo has intentado. Has fracasado. No importa. Inténtalo de nuevo. Fracasa otra vez. Fracasa mejor”. "
171 " To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others. "
172 " Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual. "
173 " Nunca automatices lo que pueda eliminarse y nunca delegues algo que pueda automatizarse o racionalizarse. "
174 " Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world. "
175 " Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four. "
176 " Estar ocupado suele ser un pretexto para evitar unas pocas acciones incómodas que son las que de verdad importan. "
177 " What we fear doing is usually what we most need to do. "
178 " There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882) "
179 " Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30–40 years of tolerating the mediocre. "
180 " Nestled in the tropics of the Coral Sea, New Caledonia was a French territory and where Julie and Marc had just sold the sailboat that took them 15,000 miles around the world. Of course, recouping their initial investment had been part of the plan. All said and done, their 15-month exploration of the globe, from the gondola-rich waterways of Venice to the tribal shores of Polynesia, had cost between $18,000 and $19,000. Less than rent and baguettes in Paris. "