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Distraction is dilution.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
View reading as an investment.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Labor, leverage.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Truth
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It's all relative.
Work vs. Luck
More moves and less chat.
Shoot.
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.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Think of many things; do one.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Learning.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You are here.
Vision
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Map ≠ Territory
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Creativity before productivity.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Experience is up only.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Cover, story.
Hierarchy.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Distraction.
It took me years to play like myself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
More ≠ more.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Alan Watts
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Value is subjective.
Distraction, focus.
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 source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
