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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
View reading as an investment.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Chronos, Kairos.
More ≠ more.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Builder, investor, trader.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hours vs. Iterations
Process vs. plan.
Talk is cheap.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Experience.
Said, done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Perspective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The obstacle is the way.
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.
+2 vs. x2
Generalist, specialist.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Done is better than perfect.
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 only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Labor, leverage.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Value is subjective.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Well done is better than well said.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Experience is up only.
Alan Watts
Slow down.
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The first step is the steepest.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
