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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Chronos, Kairos.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Movement, action.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Generalist, specialist.
Distraction, focus.
Distraction is dilution.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Vision
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Learning.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
View reading as an investment.
Process vs. plan.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Numbers obscure nuance.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Each man believes only his experience.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Slow down.
Truth, trend.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Value is subjective.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Perspective.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Realize.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Truth.
Do less, do more.
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.
Reason for being
Builder, investor, trader.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Experience.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Comfort vs. pain.
Resistance lifts.
Shoot.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Well done is better than well said.
