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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Shoot.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Generalist, specialist.
Experience.
Said, done.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Process vs. plan.
Chronos, Kairos.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Value is subjective.
The obstacle is the way.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction.
Appreciation.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It took me years to play like myself.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Do less, do more.
Don't just do something, stand there.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Reason for being
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is really hard to make something easy.
The giver is the recipient.
Cover, story.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Perspective.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
More before better.
View reading as an investment.
It's all relative.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
80:20
More ≠ more.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
Talk is cheap.
Alan Watts
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Movement, action.
Learning.
