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Everyone, Someone.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hierarchy.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
No great thing is created suddenly.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
No one is coming to save you.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Each man believes only his experience.
Don't just do something, stand there.
It took me years to play like myself.
You are what you think you are.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Perspective.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Distraction, focus.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
More ≠ more.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Comfort vs. pain.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Cover, story.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Labor, leverage.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Building vs. betting.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The giver is the recipient.
The Overthinker.
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.
Movement, action.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You are here.
Failure = feedback.
The obstacle is the way.
Experience.
Builder, investor, trader.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Learning.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
