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Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Vision
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
View reading as an investment.
Switching costs.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Don't just do something, stand there.
80:20
Hours vs. Iterations
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Movement, action.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Experience.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Numbers obscure nuance.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Work vs. Luck
Knowing vs. understanding.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Comfort vs. pain.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
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.
Value is subjective.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Building vs. betting.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Appreciation.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The obstacle is the way.
Experience is up only.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
No great thing is created suddenly.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
