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Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Process vs. plan.
Comfort vs. pain.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
View reading as an investment.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Talk is cheap.
Builder, investor, trader.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's all relative.
Truth.
The giver is the recipient.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Map ≠ Territory
Building vs. betting.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Each man believes only his experience.
Well done is better than well said.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth, trend.
Realize.
The Overthinker.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No, it took me my whole life.
Work vs. Luck
Distraction is dilution.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Hierarchy.
No one is coming to save you.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Generalist, specialist.
Truth
Everyone, Someone.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Switching costs.
