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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Truth, trend.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Distraction.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Generalist, specialist.
Builder, investor, trader.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Process vs. plan.
Experience is up only.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Shoot.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Hours vs. Iterations
Slow down.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Do less, do 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.
View reading as an investment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction, focus.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Alan Watts
Chronos, Kairos.
No great thing is created suddenly.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Done is better than perfect.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Comfort vs. pain.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Value is subjective.
Said, done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Labor, leverage.
Appreciation.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The first step is the steepest.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Experience.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
