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One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Done is better than perfect.
Building vs. betting.
Distraction, focus.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Movement, action.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
+2 vs. x2
Creativity before productivity.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Alan Watts
Truth, trend.
Failure = feedback.
Truth.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Truth
Resistance lifts.
Switching costs.
Everyone, Someone.
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.
Talk is cheap.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
Realize.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The obstacle is the way.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Reason for being
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
NFTs, explained.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Distraction.
Chronos, Kairos.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It's all relative.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The first step is the steepest.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.