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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Reason for being
More ≠ more.
Done is better than perfect.
Generalist, specialist.
No one is coming to save you.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
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.
Do less, do more.
Truth
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Knowing vs. understanding.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Think of many things; do one.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Each man believes only his experience.
Well done is better than well said.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Hierarchy.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Appreciation.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Experience.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Chronos, Kairos.
The Overthinker.
Hare & tortoise.
Vision
Hours vs. Iterations
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Cover, story.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Labor, leverage.
Distraction, focus.
