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Numbers obscure nuance.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
More moves and less chat.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Reason for being
Each man believes only his experience.
You are here.
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Comfort vs. pain.
Truth
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
More ≠ more.
Failure = feedback.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction is dilution.
Perspective.
Hierarchy.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Said, done.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It's all relative.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
+2 vs. x2
Resistance lifts.
Talk is cheap.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Truth, trend.
Movement, action.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
No one is coming to save you.
Generalist, specialist.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
Distraction, focus.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Appreciation.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Hours vs. Iterations
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Vision
Hare & tortoise.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
