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Shoot.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Value is subjective.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Distraction.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Builder, investor, trader.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Comfort vs. pain.
View reading as an investment.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Appreciation.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Cover, story.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction is dilution.
Don't just do something, stand there.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It took me years to play like myself.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The giver is the recipient.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
+2 vs. x2
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Generalist, specialist.
Experience is up only.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Truth
More before better.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Truth, Perception
