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Slow down.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Creativity before productivity.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Done is better than perfect.
Do less, do more.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Value is subjective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Reason for being
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Distraction.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Well done is better than well said.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
No one is coming to save you.
Generalist, specialist.
Realize.
Truth
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Work vs. Luck
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth.
Truth, trend.
Labor, leverage.
80:20
Talk is cheap.
Hierarchy.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Process vs. plan.
Builder, investor, trader.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Hours vs. Iterations
More ≠ more.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hare & tortoise.
Said, done.
Vision
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
