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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Experience.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Realize.
Reason for being
Talk is cheap.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Done is better than perfect.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
The Overthinker.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Process vs. plan.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The obstacle is the way.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Fear is the mind-killer.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Distraction.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Truth
No, it took me my whole life.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Labor, leverage.
Mindset vs. Mind set
It took me years to play like myself.
Hours vs. Iterations
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Generalist, specialist.
Everyone, Someone.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
