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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Labor, leverage.
Each man believes only his experience.
Well done is better than well said.
Distraction, focus.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The obstacle is the way.
The first step is the steepest.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Builder, investor, trader.
Building vs. betting.
Creativity before productivity.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Generalist, specialist.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth, trend.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
Work vs. Luck
Hierarchy.
The giver is the recipient.
Comfort vs. pain.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Cover, story.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Failure = feedback.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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 took me years to play like myself.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The Overthinker.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Perspective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
