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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
+2 vs. x2
Cover, story.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Work vs. Luck
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The obstacle is the way.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
No one is coming to save you.
Hare & tortoise.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Generalist, specialist.
Truth
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.”
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Think of many things; do one.
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.
Vision
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Truth, Perception
Building vs. betting.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Learning.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Appreciation.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
Experience.
Reason for being
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Alan Watts
Labor, leverage.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
