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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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Well done is better than well said.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Switching costs.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are what you think you are.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Movement, action.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
+2 vs. x2
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The giver is the recipient.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Truth.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hare & tortoise.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Generalist, specialist.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Distraction, focus.
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.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Work vs. Luck
Alan Watts
Cover, story.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Slow down.
Numbers obscure nuance.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Chronos, Kairos.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Said, done.
Distraction.
Done is better than perfect.
