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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Resistance lifts.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Appreciation.
Well done is better than well said.
The giver is the recipient.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
More before better.
Value is subjective.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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 are what you think you are.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You are here.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Builder, investor, trader.
Comfort vs. pain.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Movement, action.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Hours vs. Iterations
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Distraction, focus.
Generalist, specialist.
Labor, leverage.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The first step is the steepest.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Hare & tortoise.
Chronos, Kairos.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
