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No, it took me my whole life.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Value is subjective.
It took me years to play like myself.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Everyone, Someone.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Hierarchy.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Said, done.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Comfort vs. pain.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Each man believes only his experience.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first step is the steepest.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Perspective.
Slow down.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More moves and less chat.
Hare & tortoise.
The Overthinker.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Work vs. Luck
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.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Distraction.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Hours vs. Iterations
Banks vs. Blockchains
Builder, investor, trader.
Alan Watts
