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If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The giver is the recipient.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More ≠ more.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Chronos, Kairos.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Builder, investor, trader.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Work vs. Luck
Slow down.
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.
Value is subjective.
The first step is the steepest.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Shoot.
Perspective.
Experience.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Comfort vs. pain.
View reading as an investment.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Each man believes only his experience.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction, focus.
Labor, leverage.
+2 vs. x2
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Alan Watts
Experience is up only.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Truth, trend.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Talk is cheap.
Process vs. plan.
Appreciation.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
Said, done.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Well done is better than well said.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.