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‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Chronos, Kairos.
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Appreciation.
Shoot.
Each man believes only his experience.
Do less, do more.
The first step is the steepest.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Process vs. plan.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Hare & tortoise.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Experience is up only.
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.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
More moves and less chat.
Well done is better than well said.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Failure = feedback.
Fear is the mind-killer.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Movement, action.
Realize.
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.
Slow down.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Generalist, specialist.
It took me years to play like myself.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Switching costs.
Work vs. Luck
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Truth
