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The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Value is subjective.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Distraction, focus.
Talk is cheap.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
View reading as an investment.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
+2 vs. x2
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The giver is the recipient.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Experience is up only.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Perspective.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Each man believes only his experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
More ≠ more.
Comfort vs. pain.
Hours vs. Iterations
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
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 fool is always getting ready to live.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Done is better than perfect.
Shoot.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Distraction.
Chronos, Kairos.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Appreciation.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Do less, do more.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Map ≠ Territory
