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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
Appreciation.
More moves and less chat.
Slow down.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
More ≠ more.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Experience.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Resistance lifts.
NFTs, explained.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Generalist, specialist.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Shoot.
Chronos, Kairos.
Comfort vs. pain.
Work vs. Luck
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Realize.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Value is subjective.
Alan Watts
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Builder, investor, trader.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
No, it took me my whole life.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
No one is coming to save you.
You are here.
Movement, action.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Vision
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Well done is better than well said.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.