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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Truth.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Done is better than perfect.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Distraction is dilution.
Realize.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
Do less, do more.
Fear is the mind-killer.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No one is coming to save you.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Comfort vs. pain.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Resistance lifts.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
You are here.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Cover, story.
Builder, investor, trader.
Creativity before productivity.
Experience.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Reason for being
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Think of many things; do one.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Hours vs. Iterations
More ≠ more.
You are what you think you are.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
More moves and less chat.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Knowing vs. understanding.
