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Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction is dilution.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Experience.
Don't just do something, stand there.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Do less, do more.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Experience is up only.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Everyone, Someone.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
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.
Slow down.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Appreciation.
Switching costs.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
You are here.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
View reading as an investment.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Hierarchy.
Creativity before productivity.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Movement, action.
Reason for being
Alan Watts
Work vs. Luck
Well done is better than well said.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Mindset vs. Mind set
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The first step is the steepest.
The Overthinker.
Perspective.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It took me years to play like myself.
Labor, leverage.
