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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Map ≠ Territory
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth
Done is better than perfect.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Generalist, specialist.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Truth.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
+2 vs. x2
Movement, action.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Creativity before productivity.
Knowing vs. understanding.
More before better.
The first step is the steepest.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Hare & tortoise.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Shoot.
Do less, do more.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The obstacle is the way.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Don't just do something, stand there.
The giver is the recipient.
Hours vs. Iterations
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Alan Watts
Talk is cheap.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Think of many things; do one.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It's all relative.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Labor, leverage.
