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It is really hard to make something easy.
Experience is up only.
Builder, investor, trader.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Process vs. plan.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The giver is the recipient.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Switching costs.
View reading as an investment.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Said, done.
Everyone, Someone.
Distraction, focus.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The obstacle is the way.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The first step is the steepest.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Don't just do something, stand there.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Slow down.
Alan Watts
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
More before better.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Creativity before productivity.
Learning.
Distraction is dilution.
Truth, Perception
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Numbers obscure nuance.
You are what you think you are.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
