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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Done is better than perfect.
Alan Watts
The first step is the steepest.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Shoot.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Reason for being
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Map ≠ Territory
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Hours vs. Iterations
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
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.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Building vs. betting.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Appreciation.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction.
Failure = feedback.
Truth
Hare & tortoise.
No one is coming to save you.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
80:20
No, it took me my whole life.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth.
More ≠ more.
NFTs, explained.
Each man believes only his experience.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Chronos, Kairos.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Comfort vs. pain.
Vision
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The giver is the recipient.
