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Generalist, specialist.
Map ≠ Territory
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Done is better than perfect.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Appreciation.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
More ≠ more.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Value is subjective.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Hours vs. Iterations
Perspective.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Talk is cheap.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Movement, action.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
It's all relative.
More before better.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Hare & tortoise.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
+2 vs. x2
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Said, done.
Cover, story.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Experience is up only.
Distraction, focus.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Shoot.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Each man believes only his experience.