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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Builder, investor, trader.
Value is subjective.
Alan Watts
More before better.
Learning.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Experience.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hierarchy.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More moves and less chat.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth.
Done is better than perfect.
No one is coming to save you.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
80:20
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Map ≠ Territory
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.
Distraction, focus.
Hare & tortoise.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
Process vs. plan.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The giver is the recipient.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The first step is the steepest.
Slow down.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More ≠ more.
Everyone, Someone.
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.
Truth, Perception
