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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Map ≠ Territory
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Creativity before productivity.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You are what you think you are.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It's all relative.
Failure = feedback.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Process vs. plan.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Everyone, Someone.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
Cover, story.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Reason for being
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It took me years to play like myself.
Perspective.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Knowing vs. understanding.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Labor, leverage.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Mindset vs. Mind set
Think of many things; do one.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
No, it took me my whole life.
Done is better than perfect.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Chronos, Kairos.
Switching costs.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Talk is cheap.
Learning.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.