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Hours vs. Iterations
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Do less, do more.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Well done is better than well said.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The obstacle is the way.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
+2 vs. x2
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
More before better.
Work vs. Luck
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
You are what you think you are.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Hierarchy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
Distraction is dilution.
Talk is cheap.
More ≠ more.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You are here.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Shoot.
Switching costs.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Each man believes only his experience.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Cover, story.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Process vs. plan.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
