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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The giver is the recipient.
Done is better than perfect.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Hare & tortoise.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Numbers obscure nuance.
Distraction, focus.
NFTs, explained.
Truth, Perception
Each man believes only his experience.
Switching costs.
Alan Watts
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
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 are what you think you are.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
The Overthinker.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Appreciation.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Work vs. Luck
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
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.
Learning.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Process vs. plan.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Creativity before productivity.
The obstacle is the way.
Truth
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Slow down.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is really hard to make something easy.
It's all relative.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
