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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Each man believes only his experience.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
Labor, leverage.
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.
Resistance lifts.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Reason for being
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Truth.
Appreciation.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
View reading as an investment.
The Overthinker.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The first step is the steepest.
Well done is better than well said.
Switching costs.
Done is better than perfect.
Perspective.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Process vs. plan.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Truth, Perception
Experience.
Distraction, focus.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Realize.
Cover, story.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Movement, action.
Experience is up only.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Hare & tortoise.
Generalist, specialist.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth, trend.
