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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Distraction is dilution.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Hours vs. Iterations
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The first step is the steepest.
Fear is the mind-killer.
More moves and less chat.
It's all relative.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Perspective.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Builder, investor, trader.
Building vs. betting.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Hierarchy.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
You are here.
More ≠ more.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Numbers obscure nuance.
80:20
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Truth
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It took me years to play like myself.
Appreciation.
Think of many things; do one.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Resistance lifts.
It is really hard to make something easy.
