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Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Slow down.
Appreciation.
Chronos, Kairos.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Done is better than perfect.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Shoot.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Labor, leverage.
View reading as an investment.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Do less, do more.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Learning.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
+2 vs. x2
Value is subjective.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Think of many things; do one.
No one is coming to save you.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
80:20
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Failure = feedback.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hare & tortoise.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Creativity before productivity.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Equity unites, politics divides.
