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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Done is better than perfect.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More ≠ more.
Comfort vs. pain.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You are what you think you are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Switching costs.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Process vs. plan.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
View reading as an investment.
Value is subjective.
No one is coming to save you.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Perspective.
+2 vs. x2
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Hare & tortoise.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
80:20
Fear is the mind-killer.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Generalist, specialist.
The obstacle is the way.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Builder, investor, trader.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Labor, leverage.
Reason for being
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Appreciation.
Truth.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Cover, story.
The Overthinker.
Hours vs. Iterations
