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The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction, focus.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Don't just do something, stand there.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Knowing vs. understanding.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Creativity before productivity.
Done is better than perfect.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Comfort vs. pain.
The obstacle is the way.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Said, done.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Perspective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
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.
Building vs. betting.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You are here.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Switching costs.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Do less, do more.
Shoot.
Process vs. plan.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Hierarchy.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
It's all relative.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Chronos, Kairos.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Well done is better than well said.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Generalist, specialist.
