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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Done is better than perfect.
Experience is up only.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Well done is better than well said.
Talk is cheap.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Said, done.
You are what you think you are.
Truth, trend.
Creativity before productivity.
Do less, do more.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Movement, action.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Shoot.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Slow down.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Distraction is dilution.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Value is subjective.
Distraction, focus.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Switching costs.
Perspective.
Reason for being
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Work vs. Luck
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Appreciation.
No great thing is created suddenly.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
