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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Distraction.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Learning.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Everyone, Someone.
You are here.
Value is subjective.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Comfort vs. pain.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Each man believes only his experience.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Perspective.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
More before better.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Creativity before productivity.
It took me years to play like myself.
Truth, Perception
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Generalist, specialist.
Said, done.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
No, it took me my whole life.
+2 vs. x2
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Switching costs.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Process vs. plan.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Failure = feedback.
Appreciation.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Hierarchy.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The first step is the steepest.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Hare & tortoise.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It's all relative.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
