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Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Distraction, focus.
You are what you think you are.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Process vs. plan.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Movement, action.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It took me years to play like myself.
View reading as an investment.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
+2 vs. x2
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hare & tortoise.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Reason for being
The first step is the steepest.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Well done is better than well said.
Each man believes only his experience.
Do less, do more.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Map ≠ Territory
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Learning.
Cover, story.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Resistance lifts.
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.
Truth, Perception
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Failure = feedback.
You are here.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Alan Watts
