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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
More moves and less chat.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Distraction.
Truth, Perception
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Talk is cheap.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Comfort vs. pain.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Experience is up only.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
More before better.
Generalist, specialist.
Resistance lifts.
Cover, story.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The first step is the steepest.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Learning.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Truth
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Everyone, Someone.
Shoot.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hierarchy.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Distraction, focus.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Switching costs.
Map ≠ Territory
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Equity unites, politics divides.
The obstacle is the way.
