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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Done is better than perfect.
Learning.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Creativity before productivity.
You are what you think you are.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Builder, investor, trader.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Talk is cheap.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Appreciation.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Process vs. plan.
Distraction.
Everyone, Someone.
Truth, trend.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hierarchy.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Vision
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Slow down.
Cover, story.
More ≠ more.
You are here.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
It took me years to play like myself.
More before better.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Truth, Perception
Switching costs.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Hare & tortoise.
Generalist, specialist.
