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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Everyone, Someone.
Fear is the mind-killer.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Hours vs. Iterations
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No, it took me my whole life.
Chronos, Kairos.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Work vs. Luck
No great thing is created suddenly.
Distraction, focus.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Done is better than perfect.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Comfort vs. pain.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Well done is better than well said.
Labor, leverage.
Experience is up only.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Appreciation.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The first step is the steepest.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Each man believes only his experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
+2 vs. x2
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Movement, action.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Learning.
The giver is the recipient.
More ≠ more.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Value is subjective.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Switching costs.
Cover, story.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
