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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Experience.
Process vs. plan.
Said, done.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The giver is the recipient.
Appreciation.
Truth, trend.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Comfort vs. pain.
Chronos, Kairos.
Distraction, focus.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
View reading as an investment.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Shoot.
Perspective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
No great thing is created suddenly.
More ≠ more.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Generalist, specialist.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Distraction.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Work vs. Luck
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The obstacle is the way.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Value is subjective.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
