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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hours vs. Iterations
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Vision
Experience.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
NFTs, explained.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Switching costs.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
More before better.
Done is better than perfect.
Said, done.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You are here.
Resistance lifts.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Process vs. plan.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Everyone, Someone.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Distraction.
+2 vs. x2
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The first step is the steepest.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Truth, trend.
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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Do less, do more.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.