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Slow down.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth, trend.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Work vs. Luck
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction, focus.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Truth, Perception
You are here.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Shoot.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Hierarchy.
Done is better than perfect.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The first step is the steepest.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Switching costs.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Do less, do more.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Map ≠ Territory
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Hare & tortoise.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
Perspective.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Vision
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Movement, action.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Value is subjective.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
