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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Experience.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Shoot.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Do less, do more.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Reason for being
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Distraction.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Done is better than perfect.
Distraction is dilution.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Fear is the mind-killer.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Learning.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Think of many things; do one.
You are here.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Map ≠ Territory
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
No, it took me my whole life.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Labor, leverage.
Truth
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It's all relative.
80:20
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
NFTs, explained.
Perspective.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Everyone, Someone.
