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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Don't just do something, stand there.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More before better.
More moves and less chat.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Chronos, Kairos.
Map ≠ Territory
Hierarchy.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Building vs. betting.
Cover, story.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Work vs. Luck
More ≠ more.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Distraction.
Perspective.
Truth
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Vision
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Fear is the mind-killer.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Alan Watts
Movement, action.
Think of many things; do one.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
Creativity before productivity.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Distraction is dilution.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Appreciation.
Hare & tortoise.
View reading as an investment.
