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#1

“The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

tags: uncertainty

#2

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

tags: acceptance, maturity, uncertainty

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#3

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: epistemology, future, philosophy

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#4

“When in doubt, be ridiculous.”
― Sherwood Smith, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

tags: beauty, decision, fast-thinking, uncertainty

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#5

“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts

tags: live-in-the-moment, optimism, possibility, uncertainty

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#6

“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

tags: lifestyle, new-rich, personal-development

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#7

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#8

“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#9

“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#10

“Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#11

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

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#12

“Life is too short to be small.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#13

“I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#14

“The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#15

“Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#16

“$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#17

“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

tags: doing, dreams, goals

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#18

“Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”
― Tim Ferriss

tags: pareto-principle, productivity-tips, tim-ferries

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#19

“If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#20

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

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#21

“If you let pride stop you, you will hate life”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#22

“People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

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#23

“Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.”
― Tim Ferriss

tags: self-improvement

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#24

“It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#25

“People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.”
― Timothy Ferriss

tags: lifestyle, millionaire, money, rich, wealth

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#26

“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

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#27

“If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#28

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

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#29

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

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#30

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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