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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Realize.
You are what you think you are.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Hierarchy.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
Learning.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Movement, action.
Everyone, Someone.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Experience.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Alan Watts
80:20
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Work vs. Luck
You are here.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Well done is better than well said.
Distraction, focus.
+2 vs. x2
Cover, story.
Slow down.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Process vs. plan.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Reason for being
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Map ≠ Territory
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
More before better.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The obstacle is the way.
Talk is cheap.
No, it took me my whole life.
