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Hierarchy.
80:20
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Movement, action.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Think of many things; do one.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Shoot.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Builder, investor, trader.
Process vs. plan.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Labor, leverage.
You are here.
Talk is cheap.
Done is better than perfect.
Appreciation.
Perspective.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
View reading as an investment.
Truth.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Generalist, specialist.
Reason for being
Distraction.
Comfort vs. pain.
More ≠ more.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Said, done.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
You are what you think you are.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Map ≠ Territory
Well done is better than well said.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
