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Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Distraction, focus.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Learning.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Comfort vs. pain.
The first step is the steepest.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Alan Watts
Distraction.
Cover, story.
Vision
Talk is cheap.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The giver is the recipient.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
You are what you think you are.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Truth
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Appreciation.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Creativity before productivity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
View reading as an investment.
Each man believes only his experience.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Switching costs.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
