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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Experience.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Slow down.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Shoot.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No, it took me my whole life.
Work vs. Luck
More before better.
Do less, do more.
Hare & tortoise.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More ≠ more.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Said, done.
You are what you think you are.
Builder, investor, trader.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Thought, said, heard, understood.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The first step is the steepest.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Appreciation.
Generalist, specialist.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Labor, leverage.
View reading as an investment.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
80:20
Well done is better than well said.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Comfort vs. pain.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Perspective.
The giver is the recipient.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
It's all relative.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
