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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction, focus.
Perspective.
Hours vs. Iterations
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Appreciation.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More moves and less chat.
Realize.
The Overthinker.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Reason for being
More ≠ more.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Knowing vs. understanding.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Hierarchy.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Builder, investor, trader.
Done is better than perfect.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Process vs. plan.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Do less, do more.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Map ≠ Territory
Truth
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Switching costs.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Truth.
Failure = feedback.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Learning.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The giver is the recipient.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Creativity before productivity.
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 shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
