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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Appreciation.
Shoot.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You are here.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Vision
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Cover, story.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Talk is cheap.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Labor, leverage.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Said, done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Truth
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Done is better than perfect.
Reason for being
No one is coming to save you.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Learning.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Value is subjective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The obstacle is the way.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Process vs. plan.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Distraction.
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.
Resistance lifts.
Failure = feedback.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
