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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Fear is the mind-killer.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Comfort vs. pain.
Shoot.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Slow down.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Labor, leverage.
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.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Appreciation.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Truth, trend.
More moves and less chat.
No one is coming to save you.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Process vs. plan.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It took me years to play like myself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Do less, do more.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The obstacle is the way.
Map ≠ Territory
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Knowing vs. understanding.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Perspective.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Truth.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Don't just do something, stand there.
More before better.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
View reading as an investment.
Experience is up only.
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.
