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No one is coming to save you.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Perspective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Process vs. plan.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Failure = feedback.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The first step is the steepest.
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.
Talk is cheap.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You are what you think you are.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Vision
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Appreciation.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Hare & tortoise.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It took me years to play like myself.
Switching costs.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Builder, investor, trader.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Knowing vs. understanding.
More moves and less chat.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Hierarchy.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
More before better.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Reason for being
