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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Movement, action.
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.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Map ≠ Territory
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
More moves and less chat.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Realize.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Builder, investor, trader.
No one is coming to save you.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
More ≠ more.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Perspective.
Reason for being
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Truth.
Said, done.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Think of many things; do one.
Appreciation.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Slow down.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Cover, story.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Done is better than perfect.
The giver is the recipient.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Numbers obscure nuance.
Talk is cheap.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
