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Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It took me years to play like myself.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Hierarchy.
You are here.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You are what you think you are.
Everyone, Someone.
Vision
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Movement, action.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Learning.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Reason for being
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
More before better.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Chronos, Kairos.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Distraction is dilution.
Work vs. Luck
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Distraction, focus.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Value is subjective.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Talk is cheap.
Experience.
Truth, trend.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
Switching costs.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
