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Hierarchy.
It took me years to play like myself.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You are here.
Distraction is dilution.
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
More before better.
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Perspective.
Process vs. plan.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Alan Watts
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Truth, trend.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Distraction.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Generalist, specialist.
Shoot.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The first step is the steepest.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Cover, story.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Builder, investor, trader.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
80:20
Labor, leverage.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The giver is the recipient.
