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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Hours vs. Iterations
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Well done is better than well said.
Creativity before productivity.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Alan Watts
Talk is cheap.
Learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction, focus.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Vision
Switching costs.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The giver is the recipient.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It took me years to play like myself.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
Experience is up only.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hierarchy.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Comfort vs. pain.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You are what you think you are.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Hare & tortoise.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Numbers obscure nuance.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Distraction.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
