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Hours vs. Iterations
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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 simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Creativity before productivity.
View reading as an investment.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Experience.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Building vs. betting.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Reason for being
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
More ≠ more.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Slow down.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Alan Watts
Peace begins when expectation ends.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
Truth, trend.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Generalist, specialist.
Perspective.
