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The giver is the recipient.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Talk is cheap.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Said, done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Done is better than perfect.
Well done is better than well said.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Experience.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
No, it took me my whole life.
Do less, do more.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Comfort vs. pain.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Hours vs. Iterations
Truth, trend.
Learning.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Reason for being
Distraction, focus.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Think of many things; do one.
It's all relative.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Labor, leverage.
Truth.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Process vs. plan.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Realize.
Movement, action.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
More ≠ more.
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.
Alan Watts
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Building vs. betting.
Vision
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
+2 vs. x2
