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Done is better than perfect.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Alan Watts
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More ≠ more.
Appreciation.
Generalist, specialist.
Work vs. Luck
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Everyone, Someone.
It took me years to play like myself.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The obstacle is the way.
Slow down.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Distraction is dilution.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hare & tortoise.
You are here.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Well done is better than well said.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
Movement, action.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Resistance lifts.
Labor, leverage.
Hierarchy.
Think of many things; do one.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Talk is cheap.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Failure = feedback.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Realize.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
More moves and less chat.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
