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Fear is the mind-killer.
Well done is better than well said.
Experience.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.”
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It took me years to play like myself.
Everyone, Someone.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Do less, do more.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Hierarchy.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Generalist, specialist.
You are here.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Movement, action.
More before better.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Learning.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Builder, investor, trader.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Think of many things; do one.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Shoot.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Appreciation.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Map ≠ Territory
Labor, leverage.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The Overthinker.
View reading as an investment.
80:20
