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An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Generalist, specialist.
Said, done.
Hare & tortoise.
No one is coming to save you.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Chronos, Kairos.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More moves and less chat.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Cover, story.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Slow down.
Hierarchy.
Distraction.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Each man believes only his experience.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Resistance lifts.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Comfort vs. pain.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Perspective.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Movement, action.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth
Labor, leverage.
Learning.
Vision
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Value is subjective.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
80:20
More before better.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Experience is up only.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Building vs. betting.
