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Fear is the mind-killer.
View reading as an investment.
Alan Watts
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Done is better than perfect.
Each man believes only his experience.
Generalist, specialist.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction, focus.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Process vs. plan.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Do less, do more.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Work vs. Luck
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Perspective.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Experience is up only.
Talk is cheap.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Value is subjective.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Reason for being
The fool is always getting ready to live.
No, it took me my whole life.
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.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The obstacle is the way.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Realize.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Truth, trend.
No one is coming to save you.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The first step is the steepest.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Labor, leverage.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
