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Failure = feedback.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Comfort vs. pain.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Labor, leverage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
Value is subjective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Distraction, focus.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Perspective.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Work vs. Luck
View reading as an investment.
Truth, trend.
Appreciation.
Truth
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Builder, investor, trader.
Realize.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Building vs. betting.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Said, done.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
80:20
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hierarchy.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The Overthinker.
Think of many things; do one.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Distraction is dilution.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
More ≠ more.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
