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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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
Alan Watts
Done is better than perfect.
Resistance lifts.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
+2 vs. x2
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Realize.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
Talk is cheap.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
More moves and less chat.
Failure = feedback.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Numbers obscure nuance.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
View reading as an investment.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Generalist, specialist.
Map ≠ Territory
Experience is up only.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Each man believes only his experience.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Hare & tortoise.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Perspective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Slow down.
More ≠ more.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Well done is better than well said.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Switching costs.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth, Perception
More before better.
Think of many things; do one.
