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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.
Experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
+2 vs. x2
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Perspective.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Distraction.
Experience is up only.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
View reading as an investment.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Value is subjective.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Slow down.
Chronos, Kairos.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Process vs. plan.
Distraction, focus.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Comfort vs. pain.
Work vs. Luck
Labor, leverage.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, trend.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Generalist, specialist.
Shoot.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Done is better than perfect.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Fear is the mind-killer.
