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The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
View reading as an investment.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Work vs. Luck
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Chronos, Kairos.
Truth, Perception
Perspective.
Hierarchy.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
More moves and less chat.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
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.
More ≠ more.
Mindset vs. Mind set
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
Shoot.
You are what you think you are.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Switching costs.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You are here.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Equity unites, politics divides.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Distraction, focus.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Alan Watts
Hare & tortoise.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
