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The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
Switching costs.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More moves and less chat.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Perspective.
Reason for being
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The giver is the recipient.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Appreciation.
Truth.
Work vs. Luck
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Talk is cheap.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Everyone, Someone.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Slow down.
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.
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.
Alan Watts
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Map ≠ Territory
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
More ≠ more.
Think of many things; do one.
Learning.
Chronos, Kairos.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It's all relative.
Distraction is dilution.
The first step is the steepest.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth, Perception
Banks vs. Blockchains
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
