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It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
View reading as an investment.
+2 vs. x2
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Slow down.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Talk is cheap.
Work vs. Luck
The first step is the steepest.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Comfort vs. pain.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Truth, trend.
Distraction, focus.
More moves and less chat.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
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.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Reason for being
Appreciation.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You are here.
Think of many things; do one.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth, Perception
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Said, done.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Experience is up only.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Chronos, Kairos.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
More ≠ more.
More before better.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Experience.
Each man believes only his experience.
Done is better than perfect.
