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Building vs. betting.
Truth, trend.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
The obstacle is the way.
Creativity before productivity.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Shoot.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Hierarchy.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Movement, action.
Generalist, specialist.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Distraction is dilution.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Labor, leverage.
Distraction.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You are what you think you are.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hare & tortoise.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Equity unites, politics divides.
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.
Appreciation.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Work vs. Luck
Peace begins when expectation ends.
+2 vs. x2
80:20
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Experience is up only.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Said, done.
Perspective.
Alan Watts
Done is better than perfect.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Each man believes only his experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
Slow down.
Map ≠ Territory
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
