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Talk is cheap.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Appreciation.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The giver is the recipient.
Resistance lifts.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
Realize.
Comfort vs. pain.
You are what you think you are.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Hours vs. Iterations
Fear is the mind-killer.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Switching costs.
Experience.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Learning.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
More before better.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
Builder, investor, trader.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
View reading as an investment.
You are here.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
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.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Everyone, Someone.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Truth, Perception
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
More moves and less chat.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Labor, leverage.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Done is better than perfect.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
