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If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Experience.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is really hard to make something easy.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Learning.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
More ≠ more.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
+2 vs. x2
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Generalist, specialist.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It took me years to play like myself.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Said, done.
Labor, leverage.
Perspective.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
You are here.
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.
Resistance lifts.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Each man believes only his experience.
Map ≠ Territory
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
No, it took me my whole life.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Distraction.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Chronos, Kairos.
