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If it looks simple, it was hard.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Learning.
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.
Failure = feedback.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Everyone, Someone.
Truth, Perception
Creativity before productivity.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Resistance lifts.
Hierarchy.
Reason for being
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Think of many things; do one.
More ≠ more.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hours vs. Iterations
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Shoot.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The first step is the steepest.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Map ≠ Territory
Process vs. plan.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Value is subjective.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Switching costs.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Fear is the mind-killer.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
Building vs. betting.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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