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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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The first step is the steepest.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You are what you think you are.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Learning.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Slow down.
More before better.
Distraction.
Failure = feedback.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
View reading as an investment.
Chronos, Kairos.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Cover, story.
Everyone, Someone.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Value is subjective.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Work vs. Luck
Switching costs.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Process vs. plan.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Distraction, focus.
More moves and less chat.
Appreciation.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Done is better than perfect.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The giver is the recipient.
More ≠ more.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
