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Appreciation.
Value is subjective.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Shoot.
Generalist, specialist.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Done is better than perfect.
The first step is the steepest.
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.
Talk is cheap.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Fear is the mind-killer.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Distraction, focus.
Chronos, Kairos.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Hours vs. Iterations
Labor, leverage.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The giver is the recipient.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
More ≠ more.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is really hard to make something easy.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Work vs. Luck
Alan Watts
Comfort vs. pain.
Experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
View reading as an investment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
