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We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning is such an addiction and compulsion of mine that I rarely travel somewhere without deciding first how I’ll obsess on a specific skill.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Quite aside from the fact that it is impossible to understand a foreign culture without understanding its language, acquiring a new language transforms the human experience and makes you aware your own language: your own thoughts.
Quote by -Tim Firris
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.
Quote by -Tim Firris
For overcoming fear, I think that an exercise called “fear-setting” is extremely helpful.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
Quote by -Tim Firris
For years, I set goals, made resolutions to change direction, and nothing came of either. I was just as insecure and scared as the rest of the world.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Overanalysis has been my life story. It can be far worse than laziness, as overanalysis leads to the same lack of action but also self-loathing.
Quote by -Tim Firris
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized 1 or 2 strengths.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Here are a few books that have affected me or made me think differently in the last few years. None of them are directly related to business: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach — this is an important book, originally recommended to me by a neuroscience PhD who benefited from it. The Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda. The Body Keeps The Score by Van Der Kolk.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
Quote by -Tim Firris
I don’t think people are fearless. If you’re fearless, you’re nuts. But you can learn to fear less
Quote by -Tim Firris
To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows.
Quote by -Tim Firris
I realized it would destroy other people’s lives. Killing yourself can spiritually kill other people.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Rather than fight for attention with everyone online, I’ve focused on attending and speaking at events where bloggers are the attendees.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that’s something I’m accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn’t bother me.
Quote by -Tim Firris
I’m really impatient and I get angry about things that I view as deliberately slow and sloppy. And that anger can be harnessed sometimes in a really productive aggression but it also wears you down at both ends.
Quote by -Tim Firris
We all get frustrated. I am particularly prone to frustration when I see little or no progress after several weeks of practicing something new.
Quote by -Tim Firris
For most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Quote by -Tim Firris
The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.
Quote by -Tim Firris
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man, etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Quote by -Epictetus
The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure — all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius