[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[9 stoic rules for a better life (Marcus Aurelius)]] - [[10 bullets]] - [[A blank canvas]] - [[A calendar is just an alternate view for a todo list]] - [[Accepted planned obsolescence]] - [[Accidents of history]] - [[Action is a life-giving breath. Inaction is a slow-burning death.]] - [[Action is as much of a choice as inaction]] - [[Action is the antidote to doubt]] - [[Act like an owner]] - [[Acute anguish gives way to chronic languish]] - [[A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is bad forever]] - [[Adventure is out there]] - [[Adventure thinking]] - [[Advice from the CEO of Shopify]] - [[Advice that will change you]] - [[A game is only a game if it has players. Otherwise is just theory.]] - [[Agility is not the mindset of moving fast. It is the practice of adapting to the unplannable. Speed is a side effect.]] - [[A goal is a results - a destination. Habits are what get us there.]] - [[A good player plays the game well. A great player changes the game entirely.]] - [[A great way to become a better systems thinker is to start seeing the systems in all things]] - [[A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time.]] - [[A lesson about accessibility from the construction of Disney's Jungle Cruise attraction]] - [[All of a sudden, daydream has a whole new meaning to me]] - [[Allow yourself to just exist]] - [[All PR over reaches eventually]] - [[All river runs towards the sea, but the sea is never full]] - [[A lot of what people call business is actually a discipline called systems design]] - [[Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.]] - [[Always be open]] - [[Always have a backup plan to the backup plan]] - [[Always have two tethers]] - [[Always pay your debt; with interest.]] - [[A machine]] - [[A made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better]] - [[A man is rich in proportion of the number of things which he can afford to let alone]] - [[Ambition is about wanting something and doing something about it]] - [[Ambition is universally dangerous, but not universally bad.]] - [[Am I being cheap? Absolutely! That's the point. That gives the background artists more time to make something else.]] - [[A mindset is a self-perception or self-theory we hold about ourselves]] - [[Another word for challenge is opportunity]] - [[An ounce of doubt keeps me sharp]] - [[Anxiety is a negative side-effect of poor unpracticed processing]] - [[Anyone can change the world. but to change it for the better... That's always the challenge.]] - [[A person's character can reveal themselves when placed behind the wheel or behind a keyboard]] - [[A piece of you is materialized in the making of every project]] - [[Are you going to be a positive difference maker today?]] - [[A small effort is still an effort]] - [[Assumptions should be challenged]] - [[As you're making a living, don't forget to live a life]] - [[A system announces itself at the point of first contact]] - [[A system is a thing that tries to do another thing with some manner of organization]] - [[Avoid the crowd. Do you own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.]] - [[A wizard does not make mistakes. He makes unexpected possibilities.]] - [[Balance]] - [[Balance is everything]] - [[Be a floor, not a ceiling]] - [[Be a light in the world of shadows]] - [[Become a master of yourself; not a master of others]] - [[Be free of passions, but full of love]] - [[Be humbled by doubt, but don't be stopped by it]] - [[Being busy is living for someone else. Being productive is living for yourself.]] - [[Being in the moment doesn't require anything more than our attention]] - [[Be less attached to any specific outcome]] - [[Beliefs are powerful. They're just something in our minds, and we can change our minds.]] - [[Believe in others so that they can believe in themselves]] - [[Believe to achieve]] - [[Be precious with people, not with code]] - [[Be proud of moments not of things]] - [[Be water]] - [[Breadth]] - [[Break the bad by simply being good]] - [[Build that boat with all your heart and soul. When it's done, you push it out to sea and let it sail.]] - [[Build the things that matter most - things that will serve you and the people who most matter]] - [[By embracing pain, instead of running from it, we are simultaneously transformed by it]] - [[By saying yes to something, you are saying no to 100 other things.]] - [[Calmness establishes the space where great things can flourish]] - [[Can you imagine a fulfilled society? Whoa, what would everyone do?]] - [[Celebrate the beautiful within the ordinariness of our everyday]] - [[Challenges test the boundaries of what you think you can do]] - [[Challenge the default. Challenge presumptions. Challenge yourself.]] - [[Change the world]] - [[Chaos is determined by our sense of control]] - [[Chaos often finds chaotic minds]] - [[Choking is the moment you stop doing and start thinking]] - [[Chop wood carry water]] - [[Circle of safety]] - [[Clarity begins with curiosity]] - [[Cleanliness is next to godliness]] - [[Cleanliness, is the most basic practice that all forms of Japanese Buddhism have in common.]] - [[Command Z is not a time machine]] - [[Common sense does not mean common practice]] - [[Companies are complex systems. They run on a form of software we call story.]] - [[Compare to calibrate, not condemn]] - [[Control is a feeling you work for]] - [[Control only exists if you take it]] - [[Convert information to questions to reveal what you truly understand]] - [[Correcting the posture of the body, can also correct the thinking of the mind]] - [[Creation through self realization]] - [[Cycle of kindness]] - [[Cycle of violence]] - [[Deadlines are never worth dying for]] - [[Default alive]] - [[Defeat is a state of mind]] - [[Depth]] - [[Developers don't hate working on new difficult features]] - [[Difficulty makes the difference]] - [[Discipline is doing something you hate like you love it]] - [[Dissolve anxiety through acceptance]] - [[Diversity is the true normal]] - [[Diversity, not differences]] - [[Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing]] - [[Doing what is right and doing what is comfortable are two very different things]] - [[Dolly Parton's thoughts on life]] - [[Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful]] - [[Do not fear failure. Invite the fall. And rise above. Rise above it all.]] - [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]] - [[Do not waste your life chasing validation from the judgments of now. Work towards your dreams by developing yourself through the power of yet.]] - [[Don't allow negativity to live in your head completely rent free]] - [[Don't be afraid of failure. Be wary of succeeding at things that don't matter.]] - [[Don't be enslaved by that which you cannot control. Free yourself by that which you can.]] - [[Don't be precious with your materials - especially your scraps]] - [[Don't bother with others if others aren't bothered with you]] - [[Don't consume based on obligation. Or worse, a false sense of obligation.]] - [[Don’t count the days; make the days count]] - [[Don't force anything]] - [[Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life]] - [[Don't go into debt to make somebody else rich]] - [[Don't leave your comfort zone. Expand it.]] - [[Don't let someone else determine the quality of your day]] - [[Don't let the name take away the value from an idea]] - [[Don't react. Respond.]] - [[Do the right thing and do the thing right]] - [[Doubt the default]] - [[Do what is necessary only, when it is necessary.]] - [[Drawing = Time + Money]] - [[Drawing is looking. Looking is loving]] - [[Dream big. Think small. Act now.]] - [[Dreams don’t work unless you do.]] - [[Early is on time on time, and late is unacceptable]] - [[Ears are WiFi for ideas]] - [[Eat all the junk food you want, as long as you cook it yourself]] - [[Eat your food as your medicine, otherwise you have to eat medicine as your food]] - [[Eat your veggies first]] - [[Emotion is the energy of motion]] - [[Enjoy all of the above]] - [[Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things]] - [[Enjoy the ride]] - [[Epictetus and the art of resilience]] - [[Essentialism]] - [[Ethical boundaries wither as core values are replaced with compromise]] - [[Ethical fading]] - [[Ethical fading weaponizes language to weaken the resolve of people]] - [[Even the mundane can be full of richness. You just have to take it in intensely.]] - [[Every action is transactional]] - [[Everybody wants to eat but few will hunt]] - [[Every build has a moment in it where I have no idea what's going on]] - [[Every chess master was once a beginner]] - [[Everyday, we negotiate just to get our jobs done]] - [[Every defect gets respect]] - [[Everyone becomes humble when they clean the toilet]] - [[Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth]] - [[Everyone is a genius in a bull market]] - [[Everyone pays taxes. Make the most of the taxes you pay.]] - [[Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own]] - [[Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it]] - [[Every project has it's own marshmallow]] - [[Every project is a projection of you]] - [[Every scratch is a story]] - [[Everything is kung fu]] - [[Everything is practice]] - [[Everything starts with day one]] - [[Every wall you've climbed becomes a milestone for your life's journey]] - [[Expect more from yourself than you expect from others]] - [[Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything.]] - [[Explore differences to understand sameness]] - [[Extreme focus is the act of unthinking]] - [[Eye contact is huge]] - [[Faculty of choice]] - [[Failure is a feeling you allow yourself to feel]] - [[Failure is an event, not an identity]] - [[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]] - [[Failure is the chapter, not the end.]] - [[Feedback is not easy to take, but it makes success a piece of cake.]] - [[Feeding two birds with one scone]] - [[Feeling nervous is normal. Letting it stop you is a choice.]] - [[Find your space, then fill it]] - [[FOBO]] - [[Focus on taking action, even though you doubt yourself]] - [[Focus on the ball, rather than the motions of your arms while hitting the ball]] - [[Focus on what is easy to get through what is hard]] - [[Focus on what you have, not what you don't have]] - [[FOMO]] - [[For every opportunity, there is choice]] - [[Forget the pettiness of life by taking a step back and marveling at the bigness of it all]] - [[Forgetting is easy. Remembering is hard.]] - [[For so many people, being a victim is an interesting place to be.]] - [[For us, one of our key tenants is we bring smiles to people's faces.]] - [[Framing effect]] - [[From the vantage point of the present, every life story looks linear.]] - [[Gain frame thinking]] - [[Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration]] - [[Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck)]] - [[Gift of choice]] - [[Gifts are only gifts if they are unexpected]] - [[Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.]] - [[Gratitude is not a competition; it is honest acknowledgement and celebration]] - [[Greatness comes from consistently doing good]] - [[Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out is largely a matter of conscious choice and of discipline.]] - [[Guanxi]] - [[Guilt neglects good]] - [[Happy little accidents]] - [[Strength in softness|Hard and soft techniques", "Soft and hard techniques]] - [[Hard on soft, soft on hard]] - [[Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard]] - [[Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody is stabbed in the back... because I do.]] - [[Having an internal locus of control is the key to staying motivated]] - [[Hitting and missing goals]] - [[Hold high standards, but judge yourself gently]] - [[How did you teach your players the fundamentals]] - [[How Japan keeps clean]] - [[How much work you put into something is something you have complete control over]] - [[How Starcraft changed an entire country]] - [[How Stoicism can give you inner-peace in a crazy world]] - [[How things fit together as a whole is more important than the individual thing itself]] - [[How to be OK with bad drawings]] - [[How to disagree productively and find common ground]] - [[How to stay calm under pressure]] - [[How to stay calm - Without any hacks]] - [[How to turn your dissatisfaction into action]] - [[How unethical behaviour spreads]] - [[Human beings... we are explorers, we are problem solvers, and we are storytellers.]] - [[Human creativity is nature manifested in us.]] - [[I always believe my eyes rather than anything else]] - [[I am no teacher; I can merely be a signpost for a traveler who is lost]] - [[I cannot control the wind but I can direct the sail]] - [[I don't want the smart safe. I want my safe to as be dumb and as heavy as possible.]] - [[I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it.]] - [[If all art is metaphor, then all art begins with memory]] - [[If by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made.]] - [[If I'm so smart, why am I not winning?]] - [[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.]] - [[If she was spice, she'd be flour]] - [[If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster]] - [[If we only had warm weather all year round, our population would be double]] - [[If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care about those values]] - [[If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right.]] - [[If you can't keep the project, at least keep the photos.]] - [[If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?]] - [[If you get a failing grade, you think 'I'm nothing. I'm nowhere.'... If you get a grade 'not yet', you understand that you're on a learning curve. It gives you a path to the future.]] - [[If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.]] - [[If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.]] - [[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of]] - [[If you're a C student, not an A student, you can still success. Because the word success has two C's and no A's.]] - [[If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be]] - [[If you're smart about the things you choose to focus on, you make 99% of the difference.]] - [[If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain]] - [[If you want to buy a pair of shoelaces online...]] - [[If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.]] - [[If you want to make the plane, you leave earlier.]] - [[Impatience is not the cure for uncertainty, but the poison]] - [[Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.]] - [[Inaction is a slow death]] - [[Inaction is the holiday of fools who trade temporary discomfort for long-term existential suffering]] - [[In big companies, we become titanium silos of excellence]] - [[In darkness, the faintest light appears most radiant]] - [[Instead of focusing on what is going wrong, focus on what is still going right]] - [[Instead of luxuriating in the power of "yet", they were gripped in the tyranny of "now"]] - [[In Super Smash Brothers, there is a term known as "No Johns".]] - [[Integration is everything]] - [[In the chasm of eternity, moments flicker like fragile stars]] - [[In the game of life, there are no enemies - only teachers that look like chess pieces.]] - [[In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not]] - [[In the pursuit of greatness, do not fail to do good.]] - [[In the pursuit of your goals, not every opinion deserves your attention.]] - [[Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.]] - [[I pay the taxes of life gladly]] - [[Isolate the thing you want to vary]] - [[It all comes down to love or to be loved]] - [[It didn't happen to you. It happened for you.]] - [[It doesn't matter how expensive your shoes are if you don't run]] - [[It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.]] - [[It's a 2 way road between how you think and how you act]] - [[It's about the shapes of things, but also about the shape between those shapes]] - [[It's always on you. You're the governor of you.]] - [[It's easier to have zero Doritos, than just one Dorito.]] - [[It's effort applied to skill that creates human achievement]] - [[It's like putting whip cream on dog poop]] - [[It's more important to do the right thing than to do the things right]] - [[It's not about being particular. It's about being precise.]] - [[It's not being lazy. It's getting the most mileage out of your hard work.]] - [[It's not easy being green]] - [[It's not one size fits all, it's one size fits one.]] - [[It's not the clear sighted who ruled the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed warm fog.]] - [[It's not what it is. It's what it can become.]] - [[It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.]] - [[It's the depth and variety that allow you to feel the difference]] - [[It's the small things that wear you down]] - [[It's the stories, the mistakes, the experimentation, the learnings that only you can really do for yourself that make a space special]] - [[It takes more effort to change our minds about how the economy is doing than to change the economy itself]] - [[I've done something good. I've done plenty bad I'm sure. I just hope that I'll be remembered well.]] - [[I want the guest to make a decision for themselves. It engages them with the food]] - [[Judgment provides a statement, not a solution.]] - [[Just because you cannot measure it doesn't mean you cannot make progress. Sometimes you don't need a metric.]] - [[Just because you know you're bad, doesn't mean you need to feel bad about it.]] - [[Just exist]] - [[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow]] - [[Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.]] - [[Knowing that you're content will bring peace to your heart]] - [[Knowing the details of a concept is not as important as knowing the character of its principles]] - [[Knowledge factory]] - [[Know why you're doing what you're doing, and get it done]] - [[Labels are for cans, not people]] - [[Labels as a useful but inherently limiting organization tool]] - [[Laziness is where injuries live]] - [[Lead with "yet" instead of "now" as you navigate the present towards the future]] - [[Learned helplessness]] - [[Legacy provides a foundation for which inspiration and evolution can stand on]] - [[Let discipline dire the compounding victories for the rest of your day(s)]] - [[Let your success speak for itself]] - [[Life is a walking]] - [[Life is best lived working hard, solving difficult problems, surrounded by friends.]] - [[Life is too short to be taken seriously]] - [[Limiting beliefs]] - [[Limit your focus, not your ambition]] - [[Live as if it were impossible to fail]] - [[Locus of control]] - [[Loss frame thinking]] - [[Love is just a word, but you bring it definition]] - [[Make feeling good your job]] - [[Make it easier to succeed by making it harder to fail]] - [[Make more, manage less]] - [[Make the thing you're doing worth it]] - [[Make your yes worth it]] - [[Making sense of the material]] - [[Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun]] - [[Many people think they lack motivation, when what they lack is clarity]] - [[Memento mori]] - [[Men's extremity is God's opportunity]] - [[Mindset reset. How to overcome the negative thoughts and actually achieve your goals.]] - [[Minus 18 sucks all the life out of you. Plus 2 says, I ain't all bad.]] - [[Missing your goal doesn't mean you've failed. As long as you're putting in the work, you're doing the right things; you just got the date wrong.]] - [[Moments are what give memory meaning]] - [[Moments are what life is made of]] - [[Money buys optionality]] - [[Mornings are opportunities to make a part of the day uniquely yours]] - [[Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.]] - [[Moving forward with the river]] - [[Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone]] - [[Mushin]] - [[Navigate the changes]] - [[Negativity is easy. It's in our nature. Positivity is hard. It must be practiced.]] - [[Negativity may come from a place of ignorance rather than malice]] - [[Never leave people empty handed]] - [[Never mistake activity for achievement]] - [[Never put others down to raise others up]] - [[Nobody cares if you have a good user interface]] - [[Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning]] - [["Nobody" is a feeling]] - [[Nobody notices when the job is done right]] - [[No man ever steps in the same river twice]] - [[None of the kids spend any time trying to be CEO of Spaghetti Inc.]] - [[No one perfectly fits the idea of being perfectly normal]] - [[Normal is typically used as a synonym for "typical", "expected" and even "correct"]] - [[Not everyone has the privilege of having opinions]] - [[Not good is not the same as not bad]] - [[Not now is not the same as not ever]] - [[No two moments are the same]] - [[Observe the world in motion. Identify the moment of change for you to groove alongside it.]] - [[Okage sama]] - [[Once the loss frame gets in there, it sticks]] - [[Once you have a choice, you have to commit.]] - [[Once you pop, you can't stop]] - [[One often has to move away from the focus of technology and reformulate the problem]] - [[One person can change the world by giving people hope]] - [[Opinion is bias]] - [[Optics are useless without action]] - [[Optionality is a privilege]] - [[Organization eliminates the clutter of things and the chaos of the mind]] - [[Our collective sense of dissatisfaction at an unacceptable status quo kept us focused on getting things done]] - [[Our view of the world has a fundamental tendency to tilt to the negative]] - [[Outstanding service leads to outstanding results]] - [[Over ambition leads to abandon]] - [[Own today, and every tomorrow onward]] - [[Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.]] - [[Part of success is preparation on purpose]] - [[People are interested in failure. People are fascinated by triumph.]] - [[People don't buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic.]] - [[People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.]] - [[People rise above when they feel like their efforts can go beyond]] - [[People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do]] - [[Perceive to answer not to judge]] - [[Perception is reality]] - [[Perfection]] - [[Perfection is an end state]] - [[Perfection provides you with the illusion of progress without the realities of ever achieving it]] - [[Persistence and patience]] - [[Personal micro-culture]] - [[Perspective is a powerful problem solving tool]] - [[Place preciousness on process and parts rather than the product]] - [[Players give life to games just as users give life to systems]] - [[Playing techniques is the antithesis of playing music]] - [[Positivity must be practiced]] - [[Practical principles]] - [[Practice a system that exercises the mechanics of that medium]] - [[Practiced intellectual humility makes for better decision making]] - [[Practice without intentionality results in mediocrity]] - [[Praise process. Praise progress. Praise wisely.]] - [[Precision vs. accuracy]] - [[Predictability cultivates stability]] - [[Premature optimization is the root of all evil]] - [[Pressure is a privilege]] - [[Pressure is something you allow yourself to feel]] - [[Procrastination is the prioritization of perceived pain for perceived pleasure]] - [[Pure-heartedness and empty-mindedness are inherent in man]] - [[Purpose is what powers everything]] - [[Quality became an expectation rather than a treat]] - [[Quality costs less]] - [[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking]] - [[Reading critical viewer comments - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Real greatness is making everything before you came obsolete and everything after you arrived change]] - [[Reality is a singularity that everyone shares but no one can agree upon]] - [[Realization is connection. Connection is exchange.]] - [[Recognize intentional effort over arbitrary action]] - [[Reliability above all]] - [[Sandcastle principle]] - [[Say no to 1000 things before saying yes]] - [[Say no to good so that you can say yes to great]] - [[Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist]] - [[SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed.]] - [[Seeing the dirt is honest]] - [[See less with your eyes and more with your heart]] - [[See life as more of a game and less of a challenge]] - [[See the best in others and help them see the best in themselves]] - [[Separate yourself from the distractions of the matterless and embrace the quiet]] - [[Serve others, not your ego]] - [[Sharing stories is one of my favourite ways to widen the world]] - [[Shift your perspective to see the unexpected]] - [[Side effects may not be controllable, but they may be anticipated]] - [[Simply complex systems]] - [[Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.]] - [[Sometimes even to live is an act of courage]] - [[So much of what's important in life may not come from your work]] - [[Species come and go, but the earth stands forever fast]] - [[Stagnation breeds destruction]] - [[Standardization is a side effect, not a goal.]] - [[Start getting lazy, that's when you hurt yourself]] - [[Stillness provides the stage for your subconscious, if it chooses to speak. In the meantime, simply enjoy the show that is life itself.]] - [[Stop talking, start listening. Stop dismissing, start persuading. Stop shutting down, start opening our minds.]] - [[Strive for progress, not perfection]] - [[Structure governs success]] - [[Stuff]] - [[Success is a chapter, not the end]] - [[Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it]] - [[Systems can be cultivated during times of calmness. Systems are tested during times of crisis.]] - [[Systems design systems]] - [[Take care of the things that are important to you]] - [[Take the little big steps you need to move forward]] - [[Talent counts, but effort counts twice.]] - [[Technical assets]] - [[Technical Debt]] - [[Technology is a marvellous potential, but we are the ones that give it meaning]] - [[Technology is a method, not the result]] - [[Technology is easy. People is hard.]] - [[Temporal landmarks]] - [[That's just the way it is]] - [[The art of paying attention]] - [[The art of sailing rather than the art of rowing]] - [[The average person is not a justification or reason]] - [[The benevolent universe]] - [[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.]] - [[The best book ever written on pool and billiards was 'The inner game of tennis' by Tim Gallwey]] - [[The best way to predict the future is to create it]] - [[The brightest light casts the strongest shadows]] - [[The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have]] - [[The circle of control]] - [[The clapping of an audience will matter to us far more than ever to be wise]] - [[The closer you look, the blurrier things get]] - [[The defensiveness of our congress probably costs as much as our defense budget at the Pentagon]] - [[The discomfort we feel in the face of action often paralyzes us from doing anything at all]] - [[The dose makes the poison]] - [[The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.]] - [[The drift of things]] - [[The fail is the meat in the sandwich!]] - [[The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.]] - [[The great things you do are really happenings]] - [[The humility of uncertainty]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.]] - [[The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions.]] - [[The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step]] - [[The lens is humans]] - [[The maker, the audience, and the show itself]] - [[The moment I stopped looking for the story that I expected to see, an entirely new and richer truth was revealed]] - [[The moment you stop and do nothing, is the moment you surrender yourself to nature as it really is - to yourself as you really are]] - [[The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.]] - [[The more you make, the more stuff you have to manage]] - [[The most effective system is the one that you actually use]] - [[The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood]] - [[The myth of passion to be good]] - [[The only attention I was gonna get was what I got for myself]] - [[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]] - [[The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision]] - [[The pain of inaction is slow burning, draining your will, and decaying your soul]] - [[The pain of regret is far worse than pain of discipline]] - [[The patina of well-worn things]] - [[The power of believing that you can improve]] - [[The power of yet]] - [[The practice of cleaning is powerful]] - [[The present is a gift we all receive]] - [[The quiet]] - [[The real gift isn't talent, it's the ability to work hard.]] - [[There is no failure. Only feedback.]] - [[There is no path till you walk it]] - [[There is satisfaction in action. For there is action in satisfaction.]] - [[There must be better in exchange for later]] - [[There's a difference for teachers between the abstract of how we see our practice and the concrete reality of it.]] - [[There's a subtle but important difference between working for something and simply working.]] - [[There's never any need to get worked up about things you cannot control]] - [[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.]] - [[There's no fear when you're having fun]] - [[There's no such thing as on time. You're either early or late.]] - [[There's only 2 people in the world you need to impress - your 5 year old self, and your 80 year old self]] - [[The science is in the key frames, the art is everything in between, and the story is the harmony of both]] - [[These are good people doing their imperfect best to improve the world the best way they know how]] - [[The simplest thing is to not do something. Yet, it's often the hardest thing to do.]] - [[The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus]] - [[The things you own ends up owning you]] - [[The time it takes to make a choice should be proportional to the meaningful impact of that choice]] - [[The transitory nature of actions revealed themselves within environments that lack the in-between]] - [[The truth about making cartoons]] - [[The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions.]] - [[The value of a team is in it's diverse perspective, not purely in it's collective effort]] - [[The value of information increases the more opportunities you have to use it]] - [[The way you do one thing is how you do everything]] - [[The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure, but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.]] - [[The whole is greater than the sum of its parts]] - [[The word "eventually" removes the urgency that some situations cannot afford]] - [[The world is changing faster than ever. Today is the slowest it's ever going to change again.]] - [[The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?]] - [[The worst time to be figuring out how to deal with your defensiveness is when you're defensive]] - [[The worst time to learn how to swim is when you're drowning]] - [[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]] - [[Think globally, act locally]] - [[This moment is enough]] - [[This tool feels cheap but it does not behave cheap]] - [[This too shall pass]] - [[Those who know they have enough are truly wealthy]] - [[Time feels bountiful to those who appreciate it]] - [[Time is a currency. Every person has the same amount. It is up to us how we choose to spend it.]] - [[Time is the currency we're playing with in every moment in our lives]] - [[Time together is the most important]] - [[To be paralyzed by choice is to be paralyzed by privilege]] - [[To change a philosophy of work, you must first understand it]] - [[Today matters]] - [[To feel represented is to feel understood]] - [[To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique]] - [[To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.]] - [[To love is to live. To live is to let go.]] - [[Tools want to be used. They are fulfilling their purpose when they are used.]] - [[True power comes from performance not perception]] - [[Truth is realized by action]] - [[Trying]] - [[Two of the most costly words in life and business is, 'I forgot']] - [[Unconscious impulse only survives in zero-friction environments]] - [[Understand how the business works to discover how the business could work better]] - [[Understand the end game to plan for the early game]] - [[Undoing corrects all things except time spent]] - [[Very good advice by Christopher Lee]] - [[Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.]] - [[Ware tada taruwo shiru]] - [[We all have the ability to turn that negative feeling into a positive by allowing our dissatisfaction to give birth to change]] - [[We build systems to use them, not simply to maintain them.]] - [[We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.]] - [[We choose to go to the moon. Not because it's easy, but because it's hard.]] - [[We climb mountains for the same reason why we work. As human beings, we have this desire to do something - to complete something.]] - [[We don't control what is happening. We control how we respond]] - [[We don't have defenses, they have us. They own us.]] - [[We don't need to remember 500 phone numbers, but we lost the ability to remember just one.]] - [[We influence the benevolent universe by taking action]] - [[We know what we have to do. The problem is doing it.]] - [[We literally have to work harder to see the upside of things]] - [[We must be good at doing, and great at not doing]] - [[We need feedback to know if we're making progress or heading in the right way]] - [[We resign to inaction as the solution to avoid the pain of action]] - [[We use words to create emotional distance]] - [[We were looking for bliss in a blah day, and purpose in a perpetual pandemic]] - [[We won't succeed until we're talking to people under the mango tree]] - [[We work because we want to, not because we have to.]] - [[We work our fingers to the bone. But it doesn't seem like work. It's fun. It's what we want to do.]] - [[What are the little big things you can do today to make things better for you and for someone else?]] - [[What chefs inspired me the most - Andrew Zimmern]] - [[What happened today that was good?]] - [[What is happening to society?]] - [[What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important]] - [[What is normal and what is different?]] - [[What's important is how we get there, not that we got there]] - [[What to do if you feel like doing nothing]] - [[What would this look like if it were easy?]] - [[What would you do if you weren't afraid?]] - [[What you hear is not what you see]] - [[When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks]] - [[When people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong]] - [[When relevant and irrelevant thoughts compete for the same attention, something has to give]] - [[When we stop, that's when we die.]] - [[When we stop, we find a world that's happening, rather than being done]] - [[Why choose to fail when success is an option?]] - [[Will it matter in 10 minutes? 10 weeks? or 10 years?]] - [[Will you like all your children? Of course not. And you know your toughest kids are never absent.]] - [[With great power comes great responsibility]] - [[Without data you're just another person with an opinion]] - [[Would you rather have a lifetime of regret, or an afternoon or mild disappointment?]] - [[Wu wei]] - [[You always have a choice]] - [[You are better than this moment and the page you wrote]] - [[You are not born a legend. You become one.]] - [[You are not poor. Poor is a mentality. It's a mentality that very few people recover from. You are broke.]] - [[You are not your art]] - [[You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offence when they are challenged]] - [[You are somebody else's dream]] - [[You can always find something from nothing]] - [[You can always learn something from anything]] - [[You can listen for the right chord change, but you may be focused on the wrong instrument]] - [[You can never get enough of what you don't really need]] - [[You cannot control what others do, only how you respond to them]] - [[You cannot make time. You can only spend it.]] - [[You can only laugh at the monsters when the light is switched on]] - [[You can only take time, not make time.]] - [[You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather.]] - [[You can't build a skyscraper before you build a shed.]] - [[You can't control outcomes, just processes]] - [[You can't run a marathon without mile markers]] - [[You choice you didn't take, you're presuming, would have been better.]] - [[You could be good today. Instead, you choose tomorrow.]] - [[You die when you die. Till then, you live.]] - [[You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.]] - [[You don't have a team. It's just you and a glue gun, and there's a whole crew waiting and that crew costs $10,000 a minute.]] - [[You don't have to be first. You just need to be better than most people.]] - [[You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.]] - [[You establish within chaos through the command of which you can control]] - [[You have the power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.]] - [[You may not get everything you want, but the mere fact you get to decide is powerful.]] - [[You more you live life, the better it will get, the easier it will become, and the stronger you will feel.]] - [[You need self control and an out of control world]] - [[Your beliefs mark the boundaries between what is possible and impossible]] - [[Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life]] - [[You rise to the level of your ambition. You fall to the level of your systems.]] - [[Your life is a script that's being written with permanent ink. Things can be amended, but never erased.]] - [[Your past does not define your future]] - [[Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.]] - [[Youth is wasted on the young]]