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Chronos, Kairos.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Generalist, specialist.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction is dilution.
View reading as an investment.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Comfort vs. pain.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Everyone, Someone.
Done is better than perfect.
It took me years to play like myself.
Do less, do more.
Equity unites, politics divides.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Failure = feedback.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Well done is better than well said.
Truth
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More ≠ more.
Perspective.
Value is subjective.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Mindset vs. Mind set
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Movement, action.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Distraction.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
Vision
Each man believes only his experience.
No one is coming to save you.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hare & tortoise.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
