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Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Talk is cheap.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Experience.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Failure = feedback.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The Overthinker.
Well done is better than well said.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hours vs. Iterations
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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.
You are here.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Alan Watts
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
More moves and less chat.
Comfort vs. pain.
The first step is the steepest.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
More before better.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Creativity before productivity.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
+2 vs. x2
Truth, trend.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Movement, action.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Experience is up only.
Chronos, Kairos.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
More ≠ more.
Truth, Perception
Done is better than perfect.
Value is subjective.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Labor, leverage.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.