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Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Value is subjective.
Hours vs. Iterations
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hare & tortoise.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Shoot.
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.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You are what you think you are.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Don't just do something, stand there.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Cover, story.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Talk is cheap.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Reason for being
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Hierarchy.
Experience.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
No one is coming to save you.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Everyone, Someone.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Distraction.
Switching costs.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Numbers obscure nuance.
Learning.
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.
Appreciation.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
