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Movement, action.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Creativity before productivity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Switching costs.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Vision
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Learning.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Distraction is dilution.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Slow down.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
More before better.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Talk is cheap.
The first step is the steepest.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Hours vs. Iterations
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Work vs. Luck
Alan Watts
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction, focus.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
It took me years to play like myself.
Value is subjective.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
View reading as an investment.
Fear is the mind-killer.
