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The obstacle is the way.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The giver is the recipient.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Builder, investor, trader.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Each man believes only his experience.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Chronos, Kairos.
The first step is the steepest.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Shoot.
Work vs. Luck
Alan Watts
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Talk is cheap.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Experience is up only.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Value is subjective.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Labor, leverage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Experience.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Movement, action.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Done is better than perfect.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Truth, Perception
Numbers obscure nuance.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Reason for being
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.