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Thought, Spoken, Heard
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Everyone, Someone.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You are what you think you are.
Do less, do more.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Failure = feedback.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
80:20
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Well done is better than well said.
More before better.
The obstacle is the way.
Building vs. betting.
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.
More moves and less chat.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Talk is cheap.
Think of many things; do one.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Movement, action.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Vision
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Alan Watts
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Hierarchy.
No one is coming to save you.
Said, done.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Work vs. Luck
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
