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Hare & tortoise.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Said, done.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Everyone, Someone.
Building vs. betting.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Hierarchy.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
More ≠ more.
Experience.
Fear is the mind-killer.
More moves and less chat.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Builder, investor, trader.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Map ≠ Territory
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.
Value is subjective.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You are here.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Labor, leverage.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
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.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Chronos, Kairos.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
No, it took me my whole life.
Generalist, specialist.
Truth.
Failure = feedback.
Work vs. Luck
Alan Watts
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
