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Reason for being
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Creativity before productivity.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Work vs. Luck
It took me years to play like myself.
Chronos, Kairos.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Hare & tortoise.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Distraction, focus.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Equity unites, politics divides.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Hierarchy.
80:20
Resistance lifts.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction is dilution.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Builder, investor, trader.
Hours vs. Iterations
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Value is subjective.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Talk is cheap.
View reading as an investment.
Generalist, specialist.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Vision
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
Experience.
More before better.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Process vs. plan.
Think of many things; do one.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Slow down.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
