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Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Done is better than perfect.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Alan Watts
Talk is cheap.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hours vs. Iterations
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Shoot.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Perspective.
More ≠ more.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Everyone, Someone.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Truth
No, it took me my whole life.
The obstacle is the way.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Map ≠ Territory
Comfort vs. pain.
Process vs. plan.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Slow down.
Generalist, specialist.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Do less, do more.
Learning.
Building vs. betting.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
More moves and less chat.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Chronos, Kairos.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Realize.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Movement, action.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Labor, leverage.
Each man believes only his experience.
