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Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Hours vs. Iterations
+2 vs. x2
Experience.
Work vs. Luck
Slow down.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You are what you think you are.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Perspective.
Cover, story.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
More before better.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Map ≠ Territory
Well done is better than well said.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
More moves and less chat.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are here.
It took me years to play like myself.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The Overthinker.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Realize.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Resistance lifts.
It is really hard to make something easy.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Vision
Hierarchy.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Distraction, focus.
Distraction.
Talk is cheap.