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Hare & tortoise.
More before better.
Labor, leverage.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fear is the mind-killer.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Experience is up only.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Generalist, specialist.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hours vs. Iterations
The obstacle is the way.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Said, done.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Distraction is dilution.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Appreciation.
No, it took me my whole life.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
No one is coming to save you.
The first step is the steepest.
+2 vs. x2
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Learning.
Mindset vs. Mind set
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Distraction.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Map ≠ Territory
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Truth, Perception
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
