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Truth
Think of many things; do one.
Done is better than perfect.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Shoot.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
+2 vs. x2
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Builder, investor, trader.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Alan Watts
Generalist, specialist.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Do less, do more.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Map ≠ Territory
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Hierarchy.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Chronos, Kairos.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Cover, story.
Movement, action.
It's all relative.
The first step is the steepest.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Failure = feedback.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
