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Generalist, specialist.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Shoot.
Comfort vs. pain.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Creativity before productivity.
Vision
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Work vs. Luck
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Realize.
Perspective.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Hours vs. Iterations
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
View reading as an investment.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Hare & tortoise.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Building vs. betting.
Distraction, focus.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Learning.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
Alan Watts
No, it took me my whole life.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Experience is up only.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
