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Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Experience is up only.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
View reading as an investment.
More ≠ more.
Work vs. Luck
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Distraction.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Chronos, Kairos.
Labor, leverage.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More before better.
Truth, trend.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Builder, investor, trader.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Said, done.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Building vs. betting.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Appreciation.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Each man believes only his experience.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction, focus.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
More moves and less chat.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Hierarchy.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Think of many things; do one.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Creativity before productivity.
The Overthinker.
Switching costs.
