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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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Done is better than perfect.
Everyone, Someone.
Creativity before productivity.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Vision
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Said, done.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Labor, leverage.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Chronos, Kairos.
Reason for being
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction, focus.
Truth, trend.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth
The giver is the recipient.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
More before better.
Value is subjective.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
