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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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The obstacle is the way.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Do less, do more.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The giver is the recipient.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Fear is the mind-killer.
Hours vs. Iterations
No great thing is created suddenly.
Talk is cheap.
Done is better than perfect.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth, trend.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Process vs. plan.
Chronos, Kairos.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Generalist, specialist.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Value is subjective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
+2 vs. x2
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Builder, investor, trader.
Experience is up only.
Slow down.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Each man believes only his experience.
Alan Watts
Shoot.
Said, done.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
