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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Alan Watts
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Labor, leverage.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Distraction, focus.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
View reading as an investment.
The obstacle is the way.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Process vs. plan.
Well done is better than well said.
Do less, do more.
Appreciation.
Talk is cheap.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
More ≠ more.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Value is subjective.
Said, done.
Truth, trend.
Shoot.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Done is better than perfect.
Generalist, specialist.
The giver is the recipient.
Comfort vs. pain.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Chronos, Kairos.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
No one is coming to save you.
Hare & tortoise.
Realize.
Builder, investor, trader.
