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Distraction is dilution.
Labor, leverage.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Slow down.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Distraction.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Value is subjective.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Comfort vs. pain.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
You are here.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Talk is cheap.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Hare & tortoise.
Movement, action.
You are what you think you are.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Hierarchy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Hours vs. Iterations
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Perspective.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth, trend.
The giver is the recipient.
Each man believes only his experience.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Alan Watts
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Experience.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The first step is the steepest.
Truth, Perception
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Cover, story.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Experience is up only.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
