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Thought, said, heard, understood.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Reason for being
Learning.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The Overthinker.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You are here.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More moves and less chat.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Building vs. betting.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Truth, Perception
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
80:20
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
It took me years to play like myself.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The giver is the recipient.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
No one is coming to save you.
Done is better than perfect.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Failure = feedback.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Vision
You are what you think you are.
Realize.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
