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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Done is better than perfect.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Truth, trend.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Creativity before productivity.
Well done is better than well said.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Appreciation.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Perspective.
Each man believes only his experience.
Cover, story.
Learning.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hours vs. Iterations
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Generalist, specialist.
Hierarchy.
Hare & tortoise.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Vision
Builder, investor, trader.
More before better.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Everyone, Someone.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Distraction, focus.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You are here.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The giver is the recipient.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Said, done.
Experience is up only.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
Experience.
Realize.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Shoot.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Movement, action.