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Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Movement, action.
Distraction, focus.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You are what you think you are.
Hierarchy.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Failure = feedback.
Distraction.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Truth
Labor, leverage.
Truth, trend.
Cover, story.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Creativity before productivity.
The obstacle is the way.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hours vs. Iterations
Fear is the mind-killer.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Hare & tortoise.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Realize.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Alan Watts
More moves and less chat.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Perspective.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
More ≠ more.
Each man believes only his experience.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are here.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
