Making complex ideas simple.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Each man believes only his experience.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

The obstacle is the way.

Generalist, specialist.

Work vs. Luck

It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

Alan Watts

Perspective.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

zero-sum, infinite-sum

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Labor, leverage.

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.

Slow down.

Numbers obscure nuance.

Appreciation.

The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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.

Truth, Perception

When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.

Hierarchy.

Don't just do something, stand there.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Observer, expert, practitioner.

You are here.

Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

Hare & tortoise.

Comfort vs. pain.

Distraction.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

More before better.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.

Cover, story.

It is really hard to make something easy.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

Learning.

+2 vs. x2

View reading as an investment.

Shoot.

Talk is cheap.

Builder, investor, trader.

Focus is determined by what you ignore.

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.

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Everyone, Someone.

Distraction is dilution.

Peace begins when expectation ends.