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Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Done is better than perfect.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Work vs. Luck
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Appreciation.
Vision
Map ≠ Territory
Truth, Perception
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Each man believes only his experience.
Slow down.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Knowing vs. understanding.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The giver is the recipient.
Building vs. betting.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hours vs. Iterations
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Resistance lifts.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience.
More before better.
Movement, action.
No, it took me my whole life.
Reason for being
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Generalist, specialist.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It took me years to play like myself.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Chronos, Kairos.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
