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Creativity before productivity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Mindset vs. Mind set
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Distraction is dilution.
80:20
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Truth, Perception
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
No one is coming to save you.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Failure = feedback.
Map ≠ Territory
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You are here.
More ≠ more.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Work vs. Luck
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth.
Truth, trend.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Generalist, specialist.
View reading as an investment.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
No, it took me my whole life.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The giver is the recipient.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Appreciation.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Hare & tortoise.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Movement, action.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
