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+2 vs. x2
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Do less, do more.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The obstacle is the way.
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.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The first step is the steepest.
Alan Watts
No great thing is created suddenly.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Talk is cheap.
Each man believes only his experience.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Experience.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Builder, investor, trader.
Labor, leverage.
Experience is up only.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
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 more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Shoot.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hours vs. Iterations
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Generalist, specialist.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
View reading as an investment.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The giver is the recipient.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
More ≠ more.
Distraction, focus.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is really hard to make something easy.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
