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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Movement, action.
Truth, Perception
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The first step is the steepest.
Each man believes only his experience.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Chronos, Kairos.
Said, done.
More ≠ more.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are what you think you are.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Distraction, focus.
Experience is up only.
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.
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.
Cover, story.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
Everyone, Someone.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Do less, do more.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Value is subjective.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Slow down.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
You are here.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Learning.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
No one is coming to save you.
Generalist, specialist.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
