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View reading as an investment.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hours vs. Iterations
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Experience.
Done is better than perfect.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Generalist, specialist.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The giver is the recipient.
Process vs. plan.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Alan Watts
Chronos, Kairos.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
+2 vs. x2
Value is subjective.
Distraction, focus.
Distraction.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The first step is the steepest.
More ≠ more.
Do less, do more.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Truth, trend.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Each man believes only his experience.
Talk is cheap.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Comfort vs. pain.
Perspective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Builder, investor, trader.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Work vs. Luck
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Slow down.
