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Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Think of many things; do one.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Don't just do something, stand there.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Everyone, Someone.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The Overthinker.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Do less, do more.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
80:20
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Failure = feedback.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Numbers obscure nuance.
Shoot.
Said, done.
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.
Resistance lifts.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The giver is the recipient.
Learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Each man believes only his experience.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Truth, trend.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hierarchy.
Distraction, focus.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Slow down.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Appreciation.
