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Reason for being
Observer, expert, practitioner.
It's all relative.
Do less, do more.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Distraction, focus.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Think of many things; do one.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Each man believes only his experience.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Cover, story.
Said, done.
Distraction is dilution.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Creativity before productivity.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Alan Watts
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Equity unites, politics divides.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
No, it took me my whole life.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
More ≠ more.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Talk is cheap.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Switching costs.
Perspective.
No one is coming to save you.
Work vs. Luck
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Truth, Perception
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The Overthinker.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.