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Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Labor, leverage.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Distraction, focus.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Each man believes only his experience.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Comfort vs. pain.
You are what you think you are.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Creativity before productivity.
Learning.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
View reading as an investment.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More ≠ more.
Done is better than perfect.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The first step is the steepest.
Alan Watts
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Well done is better than well said.
Reason for being
Resistance lifts.
It's all relative.
Truth
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The giver is the recipient.
Shoot.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Map ≠ Territory
Failure = feedback.
Mindset vs. Mind set
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Vision
