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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Perspective.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Value is subjective.
The obstacle is the way.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The first step is the steepest.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Chronos, Kairos.
Each man believes only his experience.
Talk is cheap.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Labor, leverage.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
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.
Vision
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Failure = feedback.
Knowing vs. understanding.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
No, it took me my whole life.
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.
Alan Watts
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Realize.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Movement, action.
Fear is the mind-killer.
