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You are what you think you are.
Slow down.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Perspective.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Comfort vs. pain.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Don't just do something, stand there.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Generalist, specialist.
Experience is up only.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Said, done.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
80:20
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
No one is coming to save you.
The obstacle is the way.
It took me years to play like myself.
The first step is the steepest.
Process vs. plan.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Vision
No, it took me my whole life.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Hours vs. Iterations
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
View reading as an investment.
Well done is better than well said.
Value is subjective.
Hare & tortoise.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Talk is cheap.
Switching costs.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It is really hard to make something easy.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
