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Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Everyone, Someone.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
No one is coming to save you.
More moves and less chat.
Building vs. betting.
Truth
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.
Vision
View reading as an investment.
Said, done.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Resistance lifts.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
80:20
Don't just do something, stand there.
Hare & tortoise.
Learning.
Cover, story.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Builder, investor, trader.
Failure = feedback.
Work vs. Luck
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Slow down.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Hierarchy.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Chronos, Kairos.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Switching costs.
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.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It is really hard to make something easy.
More ≠ more.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
