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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.
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.
Experience.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Talk is cheap.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Movement, action.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Hare & tortoise.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Alan Watts
The obstacle is the way.
You are here.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Experience is up only.
The giver is the recipient.
Vision
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Comfort vs. pain.
Learning.
It took me years to play like myself.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Truth, Perception
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Each man believes only his experience.
Map ≠ Territory
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
More before better.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It's all relative.
Do less, do more.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Perspective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Switching costs.
Well done is better than well said.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
