Making complex ideas simple.

It took me years to play like myself.

It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.

View reading as an investment.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Experience.

Distraction, focus.

Talk is cheap.

When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

The obstacle is the way.

The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.

Reason for being

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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.

No one is coming to save you.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

The Overthinker.

Experience is up only.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.

If it looks simple, it was hard.

Map ≠ Territory

Realize.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

‘Everything is original, nothing is original’

It is really hard to make something easy.

Value is subjective.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Hare & tortoise.

Truth

Failure = feedback.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Distraction.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Numbers obscure nuance.

Creativity before productivity.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

Peace begins when expectation ends.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

Well done is better than well said.

The giver is the recipient.

You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

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.

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.

Labor, leverage.

+2 vs. x2

Vision

Hours vs. Iterations