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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Reason for being
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Perspective.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More ≠ more.
Comfort vs. pain.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Generalist, specialist.
Done is better than perfect.
Appreciation.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Everyone, Someone.
Distraction.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Switching costs.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Hare & tortoise.
Hierarchy.
It's all relative.
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.
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.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
+2 vs. x2
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Think of many things; do one.
Cover, story.
No one is coming to save you.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth, trend.
The Overthinker.
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Experience.
Said, done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Movement, action.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
