Making complex ideas simple.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Thought, Spoken, Heard

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.

The first step is the steepest.

Work vs. Luck

Each man believes only his experience.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Fear is the mind-killer.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

The giver is the recipient.

Shoot.

Experience.

+2 vs. x2

Talk is cheap.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Perspective.

No great thing is created suddenly.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Hours vs. Iterations

The obstacle is the way.

There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Alan Watts

Numbers obscure nuance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Movement, action.

Creativity before productivity.

Generalist, specialist.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

View reading as an investment.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.

Said, done.

Truth, Perception

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Switching costs.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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.

Hare & tortoise.

Belief is a skill that requires practice.

No, it took me my whole life.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Knowing vs. understanding.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Experience is up only.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Learning.

You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.