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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Everyone, Someone.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Work vs. Luck
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Process vs. plan.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Truth, trend.
Labor, leverage.
Each man believes only his experience.
Hare & tortoise.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Cover, story.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
More before better.
Appreciation.
Said, done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Think of many things; do one.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
View reading as an investment.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Switching costs.
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.
More ≠ more.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Building vs. betting.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Truth
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Realize.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
