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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Reason for being
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Shoot.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Everyone, Someone.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Truth.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Experience.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
View reading as an investment.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More before better.
Hours vs. Iterations
Said, done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Process vs. plan.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The first step is the steepest.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
+2 vs. x2
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Talk is cheap.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Building vs. betting.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Vision
Perspective.
