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Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Cover, story.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Truth, Perception
Said, done.
Truth.
Distraction, focus.
Resistance lifts.
Building vs. betting.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Vision
The first step is the steepest.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Reason for being
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No one is coming to save you.
Comfort vs. pain.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Alan Watts
Numbers obscure nuance.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Realize.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Truth
Shoot.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Chronos, Kairos.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Generalist, specialist.
Learning.
No, it took me my whole life.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
More ≠ more.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Process vs. plan.
More before better.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Everyone, Someone.
Hours vs. Iterations
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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