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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Perspective.
Truth, trend.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Chronos, Kairos.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Each man believes only his experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
View reading as an investment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Slow down.
Process vs. plan.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Said, done.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Generalist, specialist.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Realize.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
You are what you think you are.
More ≠ more.
Failure = feedback.
Reason for being
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Creativity before productivity.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Done is better than perfect.
Learning.
More before better.
No one is coming to save you.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen 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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
