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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
+2 vs. x2
Value is subjective.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Labor, leverage.
Each man believes only his experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Perspective.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Experience is up only.
Well done is better than well said.
Truth, Perception
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It took me years to play like myself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Experience.
The first step is the steepest.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction is dilution.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Switching costs.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Everyone, Someone.
More moves and less chat.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Alan Watts
Knowing vs. understanding.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
It's all relative.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
View reading as an investment.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Resistance lifts.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Said, done.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Generalist, specialist.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.