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Creativity before productivity.
The giver is the recipient.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No one is coming to save you.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Distraction, focus.
Vision
Truth, trend.
Hierarchy.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Realize.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More before better.
You are here.
It's all relative.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Learning.
Reason for being
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Distraction is dilution.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Truth, Perception
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Everyone, Someone.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Hours vs. Iterations
Talk is cheap.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Builder, investor, trader.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Experience.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Well done is better than well said.
Hare & tortoise.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
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.
Value is subjective.
The Overthinker.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth.
Banks vs. Blockchains
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
