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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Process vs. plan.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Each man believes only his experience.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Perspective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Cover, story.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Movement, action.
Truth.
Work vs. Luck
No one is coming to save you.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Said, done.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Slow down.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Labor, leverage.
Learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
More ≠ more.
Everyone, Someone.
Realize.
No, it took me my whole life.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Building vs. betting.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Value is subjective.
View reading as an investment.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Distraction, focus.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Comfort vs. pain.
