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It is really hard to make something easy.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Chronos, Kairos.
Perspective.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Work vs. Luck
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The obstacle is the way.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Said, done.
Process vs. plan.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Alan Watts
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
No great thing is created suddenly.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Comfort vs. pain.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Talk is cheap.
Appreciation.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hours vs. Iterations
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Do less, do more.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
View reading as an investment.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Creativity before productivity.
Generalist, specialist.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Experience.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Map ≠ Territory
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
