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No one is coming to save you.
Said, done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hours vs. Iterations
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Done is better than perfect.
Work vs. Luck
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Well done is better than well said.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Process vs. plan.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Truth, trend.
You are here.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It took me years to play like myself.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Do less, do more.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The obstacle is the way.
Experience is up only.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Generalist, specialist.
The Overthinker.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Perspective.
Truth.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
