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Truth, Perception
zero-sum, infinite-sum
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
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 seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Learning.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Slow down.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Said, done.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Experience is up only.
Appreciation.
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.
Building vs. betting.
Truth, trend.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Work vs. Luck
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.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
The obstacle is the way.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth
No, it took me my whole life.
Chronos, Kairos.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The giver is the recipient.
Builder, investor, trader.
Banks vs. Blockchains
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
It took me years to play like myself.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Equity unites, politics divides.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
More moves and less chat.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Each man believes only his experience.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
Well done is better than well said.
The first step is the steepest.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
