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Equity unites, politics divides.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Experience.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You are what you think you are.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Movement, action.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Cover, story.
Alan Watts
You are here.
Experience is up only.
Well done is better than well said.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Hierarchy.
Generalist, specialist.
Hare & tortoise.
The first step is the steepest.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Learning.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The giver is the recipient.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Done is better than perfect.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Switching costs.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Everyone, Someone.
+2 vs. x2
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Distraction is dilution.
It took me years to play like myself.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Comfort vs. pain.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
