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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Everyone, Someone.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Truth, trend.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
View reading as an investment.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth, Perception
It took me years to play like myself.
Distraction is dilution.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Generalist, specialist.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Value is subjective.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Creativity before productivity.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Movement, action.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Each man believes only his experience.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Talk is cheap.
Appreciation.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Learning.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You are what you think you are.
Vision
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
More before better.
Failure = feedback.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Done is better than perfect.
80:20
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
