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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
More ≠ more.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You are here.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Building vs. betting.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Generalist, specialist.
Cover, story.
Well done is better than well said.
You are what you think you are.
Perspective.
Said, done.
No one is coming to save you.
Switching costs.
Resistance lifts.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Experience.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Movement, action.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Each man believes only his experience.
Failure = feedback.
Appreciation.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
More before better.
+2 vs. x2
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Truth, trend.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
