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More ≠ more.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You are what you think you are.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Value is subjective.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Comfort vs. pain.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Creativity before productivity.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More before better.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
No, it took me my whole life.
View reading as an investment.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Do less, do more.
You are here.
Work vs. Luck
Each man believes only his experience.
Hierarchy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Hare & tortoise.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Truth, Perception
Distraction is dilution.
Experience is up only.
Done is better than perfect.
Builder, investor, trader.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
Distraction, focus.
Said, done.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Map ≠ Territory
