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If it looks simple, it was hard.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Distraction, focus.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
No, it took me my whole life.
Alan Watts
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Talk is cheap.
Building vs. betting.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Experience.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Truth, Perception
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The Overthinker.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
View reading as an investment.
Map ≠ Territory
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Shoot.
Hours vs. Iterations
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The first step is the steepest.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Experience is up only.
More moves and less chat.
More ≠ more.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Movement, action.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Chronos, Kairos.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
