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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Each man believes only his experience.
Work vs. Luck
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.
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.
Appreciation.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Perspective.
Experience is up only.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Done is better than perfect.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
+2 vs. x2
Generalist, specialist.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Creativity before productivity.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Said, done.
More before better.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth, Perception
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
NFTs, explained.
The Overthinker.
Builder, investor, trader.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Hierarchy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Comfort vs. pain.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The obstacle is the way.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Shoot.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Reason for being
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
