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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Numbers obscure nuance.
View reading as an investment.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Chronos, Kairos.
Value is subjective.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Hare & tortoise.
Distraction is dilution.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Comfort vs. pain.
The Overthinker.
Failure = feedback.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Do less, do more.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Distraction.
Switching costs.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Building vs. betting.
Process vs. plan.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Reason for being
Generalist, specialist.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Movement, action.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
It took me years to play like myself.
Think of many things; do one.
Equity unites, politics divides.
No one is coming to save you.
The giver is the recipient.
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.
Truth
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.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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