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Done is better than perfect.
More before better.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The obstacle is the way.
Failure = feedback.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Creativity before productivity.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
It took me years to play like myself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Appreciation.
+2 vs. x2
Think of many things; do one.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
80:20
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Everyone, Someone.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Cover, story.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Builder, investor, trader.
Said, done.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Truth
Mindset vs. Mind set
Alan Watts
Truth, Perception
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Realize.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Work vs. Luck
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Value is subjective.
