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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Creativity before productivity.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Talk is cheap.
Alan Watts
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Slow down.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Experience.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Do less, do more.
Perspective.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Cover, story.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Shoot.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Builder, investor, trader.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Process vs. plan.
Done is better than perfect.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The first step is the steepest.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Hierarchy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Labor, leverage.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Hare & tortoise.
Reason for being
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More ≠ more.
Well done is better than well said.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Truth.
NFTs, explained.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Resistance lifts.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Appreciation.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Said, done.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Work vs. Luck