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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No, it took me my whole life.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The giver is the recipient.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
More moves and less chat.
Think of many things; do one.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
NFTs, explained.
Map ≠ Territory
Each man believes only his experience.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Resistance lifts.
Labor, leverage.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Realize.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Slow down.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Banks vs. Blockchains
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Building vs. betting.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The first step is the steepest.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Truth
No great thing is created suddenly.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You are here.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Learning.
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.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.