The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Timothy Ferriss
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“In cooking—as in business and war—hope for the best but plan for the worst.”
“I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.”
“A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn’t matter; an open mind does.”
“You don’t need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.”
“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.”
“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.”
“Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.”
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Book Keywords:
success, speed, cooking, goals, incentives, learning, mastery
