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Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
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.
The obstacle is the way.
View reading as an investment.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Value is subjective.
Do less, do more.
Labor, leverage.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Truth, Perception
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The Overthinker.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Reason for being
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It's all relative.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
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.
Experience.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Think of many things; do one.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Creativity before productivity.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Building vs. betting.
No one is coming to save you.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
Cover, story.
Comfort vs. pain.
Switching costs.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Everyone, Someone.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth
Process vs. plan.
You are here.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Mindset vs. Mind set
zero-sum, infinite-sum
