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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.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Said, done.
Truth, trend.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
+2 vs. x2
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The giver is the recipient.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Appreciation.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience is up only.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Experience.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Done is better than perfect.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Value is subjective.
Learning.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Do less, do more.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Shoot.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Distraction, focus.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
More before better.
The Overthinker.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Resistance lifts.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Perspective.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Each man believes only his experience.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Builder, investor, trader.
Talk is cheap.
Cover, story.
Well done is better than well said.
Distraction.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Think of many things; do one.
Labor, leverage.
