My Lines

1. If someone offers you to buy a pair of shoes for 10 bucks you are going to check them for holes
2. If hoping to succeed never warn a person you are going to attempt to change their mind
3. Quit one bad habit at a time
4. In choosing which advice to follow look for consistent competence not singular success no matter the magnitude
5. All plans are wagers
6. You cannot control the outcome. You can only control your effort
7. You do not choose what fire burns inside of you. The fire chooses you
8. Never let show it's your first time of doing anything
9. We all start clueless
10. You cannot keep swimming in place and expect to miraculously cross the ocean
11. The greater the fear the greater the doubt not the other way around
12. Winning the game of life is not about breaking the rules it's about discovering them
13. There is no greater insult than the unspoken truth
14. Learning just in order to temporarily remember doesn't work. You have to learn because you need to. Because there is something that you are trying to do
15. Life is so much simpler when you don't have to make impossible choices
16. Anger is a tool. Use it while hot to overcome your fears
17. Having a soul is an axiom of action
18. The greater the imagination the greater the fear
19. Nothing like desperation to get you to do what needs to be done that you could never do before
20. People who always win never find a reason to get better
21. I place far more weight on what people say by accident than what they say on purpose
22. Common sense leads to common places
23. Some things you can only appreciate after you leave them behind
24. I only ever travel where they tell me I cannot go
25. Does not matter who has better seats if the plane is going down
26. Only way to know you are not avoiding a thing out of fear is to do it
27. We have a tendency of letting people go and lying to ourselves that we are doing it out of strength while in reality we are doing it out of fear
28. You cannot fix a person who does not know that they are broken
29. There are things in life you will only ever get once you learn to stop wanting them
30. If there are thorns to you left and thorns to your right there is just no point in looking down in deciding where to go
31. My face is a mask I did not get to choose
32. Arrogance is a necessary risk to arrive at true confidence
33. We are all on the same boat yet so few of us are trying to stop it from sinking
34. I could never love the things I was supposed to love nor hate the things I was supposed to hate just because I was supposed to
35. Easier to live with failure than never having tried at all
36. Win first ask questions later
37. There is no room in the world better guarded than the one in which we store our true selves
38. The most inescapable prison in the world is your own mind
39. If you did not know the child you will never truly know the man
40. Reality almost always wins
41. Some men are made for peace. Some men are made for war
42. You can always tell who a person is by the company they keep
43. The world has too much sadness and not enough people dressed in blue
44. Getting what I really wanted always cost me more than I would have been willing to pay had I known
45. Time buries all shame
46. The best and worst of humanity is done together
47. A dream caught is a dream lost
48. If you intend to chase your dreams tomorrow you better go to sleep in your running shoes
49. Hopefulness of a person is built when his childhood is enjoyed
50. I live from tunnel to tunnel. Chasing the light
51. The light at the end of the tunnel is just the front porchlight at the door to the next tunnel
52. Hope will always be the last light to go out before the darkness
53. The space between two people can be greater than the space between two planets and filled faster than the speed of light
54. Distance never changed the way I felt
55. Years are chips
56. To be understood the truth has to be broken down into smaller pieces and revealed at the right order
57. I never feed people anything they cannot swallow
58. Write every idea down or you are telling your mind it is ok to forget
59. Creativity is the skill of listening inside your own head
60. If you want your enemies to despair you must first give them hope
61. When awake I try to dream. When asleep I try to live in the real world
62. History does not care how victories were achieved it only cares who won
63. Most of the time I live. Once in a while I take pause to notice I am alive
64. The things that will make life easier in the short term will make it harder it the long one
65. Never in my life did I say I wish I did not know
66. Honesty makes the sharpest insults
67. Flirt first think later
68. The further confidence climbs the further it one day falls
69. Life is too short to wait for the rain to stop
70. Life is too long to spend with your second most favorite person
71. The two most important things to not lose during a poker game are your chips and your temper
72. The biggest lies we save for ourselves
73. The closer the end feels the more I try to convince myself that it will never come
74. The person we like the most is the one that brings out in us our favorite version of ourselves
75. Free will is not expressed by decisions compelled by emotions but rather in the decisions made in spite of them
76. You can only fall for so long holding on the belief there is a soft landing waiting at the bottom.
77. Mastery of poker is not about how you win. It is about how you lose
78. There is nothing more dangerous than the truth.
79. You cannot escape a prison you do not see
80. I built a prison of productivity for my mind. I built it with no doors and I threw away all the keys
81. Every day I think I have gone too far and every day I keep on going further still
82. Some features are worth the bugs.
83. People make their own personalized hell. The devil is only In charge of the popcorn
84. If you find a tree of diamond fruits accidentally growing in your garden you damn well better water it.
85. Do not excuse not going after things you greatly fear and could not easily achieve
86. You cannot get to the bottom of the ocean while keeping your head above the water
87. A bird could never fly if all the other birds believed there was no sky
88. Don't look anyone in the eye and you will never get turned to stone
89. Do not go trying to change the world thinking it won't put up a fight
90. Once you solve how to fly you don't stop at the clouds and you don't stop at the stars
91. Knowledge compels action
92. Some of the biggest moments in life happen in a matter of seconds.
93. Be very careful at using the past to predict the future. Too often we want it to be that simple
94. The better I see myself the better I see my future
95. All facts are fiction
96. Try to see yourself exactly as you are. Don't inflate the good. Don't turn a blind eye to the bad and you will maximize the accuracy of your predictions
97. Even when going back. Move forwards
98. Magic hides in plain sight
99. No one ever did by choice something they didn't want to do
100. All it takes is a chip and a chair. Don't leave your opponents any chips
101. If you can't control your feelings control your thoughts. If you can't control thoughts control your body. If you can't control your body control your options.
102. In determining whether a thing is true always take into account whether you want to be true and that is skewing your assessment
103. You have to pretend to play the same game by the same rules or people will never admit when they are beat
104. You can't always win
105. Play to win. Never play to not lose
106. Words can be beautiful even when you don't agree with them
107. Mostly think in a foreign language and you will double your rationality
108. You have to unlock your past to unlock your future
109. Saying the same thing over and over won't get you different results unless you use different words
110. If you can't find the key make a new door
111. You are never as powerful in a room as when you start talking and you lose yourself
112. Only time will tell whether failure means you failed
113. Perfection isn't a place its journey
114. In being influenced by someone else there is always a moment we think what he said in our own words making it our own.
115. Don't outlive your ambition
116. The only person who ever taught you anything is you. In your moments of comprehension explaining the thing to yourself
117. It's just one more battle
118. Anyone living long enough will have a harder life than originally intended
119. You can't appreciate just how much you needed that tiny light at the end of the dark tunnel that is your life till it is put out. Leaving you in darkness
120. There are an infinite amount of skills you can develop in your life and so there is an infinite amount of rules you can have.
121. The more rules you have with recorded data of effectiveness the better
122. The more rules the better
123. No one should suck at anything
124. Nothing like those rare moments in life that are so intense you don't give a shit about anything else in the world
125. My eyes believe in it but my heart doubts my eyes
126. If you had lucky cards but ended up broke did you have a lucky day?
127. When I lose I'm upset I lost. When I win I'm upset I should have won more
128. You can't know if you've mastered tilt till you play for stakes you can't afford to lose
129. It's not how much you already put in the pot. It's how much you have to gain
130. Freedom never comes for free
131. The reason humor is so attractive is that we are all looking for someone to lighten the load rather than pile on
132. First get it done. Then get it done right
133. Quantify your will power or you may never get stronger
134. Destroy a chair and your just splitting it atoms. Destroy an atom and your just splitting its protons and electrons. Destroy a proton and your just splitting its quarks. So what happens to the consciousness when a person dies? Does it have the unique ability to go from something into nothing? Or perhaps it too is just split into smaller parts. Like everything else
135. An IQ test is as good at rating people by intelligence as nail hammering competition would be at rating people at building houses
136. Our vision of reality is the result of evolution. We see what we need to see. Imagine if you saw the world as atoms. It would have been far too confusing. Yet it would be the more accurate representation. This should help us realize we don't see things as they are but as the labels our mind gives them. A chair is not a chair. It's a group of atoms in a certain formation. A body is not a body. It is the representation of what we have the most control over. Just as you control your finger more than the hairs on your head. You control your body more than you do anything else in reality. Each of us is the entire world. But just as we it would hurt us to see the atoms. It would hurt us to see ourselves beyond that which we can control.
137. Science is a tool it's not the truth
138. Caution gets more people killed than courage
139. Above all else beware caution
140. The only escape from the present is to lose yourself in your vision of the future
141. Trying to catch happiness is like trying to catch a fly using chopsticks
142. You are as tired as you believe you should be
143. If you don't know what you want to do flip a coin. If you don't like the result. You now know what you want to do
144. Evolution explains the how. Not the why. Ask any artist. Random creation is a tool
145. I find it strange people considering a huge ball of fire in the sky as science rather than magic. What more can you ask for?
146. Any 4 year old will tell you the obvious truth of the world. Magic is real
147. In my dreams I practice my fears
148. The best work is done anonymous
149. Wrinkles and gray hair show the age of the body. Only scars show the age of the mind
150. A good card player wins more when he runs well and loses less when he runs bad. Thus he will always appear to be the luckiest player at the table
151. Never show your cards and never say what the game is
152. You can't lose if you're the only one who knows what the game is
153. If you want to reach the sky better aim for the stars
154. Having talent give you as much as finding a match in a blizzard
155. We remember what matters to us
156. I have never regretted doing what I thought was right. Even if it turned out to be wrong
157. Avoid doubting your own power
158. In their dreams rats practice running through the maze. We do the same
159. Baby steps are the key to unstagnating improvement
160. In poker and in life. You have to go all in now and again
161. Easier to sacrifice joy than to manage its dose
162. It is an amazing human ability to know what has been done. What can be done. And still believe some things are impossible
163. Walking somewhere you don't know and getting lost from time to time inspires original thoughts
164. What is hard is usually what is right
165. Life is too long to stay the same
166. One dragon at a time
167. Never trust your rationalizations of an addiction
168. The earlier an emotion forms the longer it lasts
169. If you can't commit you can't win
170. One impossible task at a time
171. The more I love a person the more beautiful they seem
172. When life is good never forget. There is always a shit storm headed your way
173. Write your own character
174. I don't have a dream. I have a plan
175. Impossible is a made up word
176. Any emotion can be controlled except love
177. Live the magic
178. The world wasn't flat. It wasn't round. It isn't quarks
179. There is no evidence of destruction. Look closer at something you broken and you'll only see you separated it to smaller pieces that were held together by attraction. If you've never seen destruction why would you believe your soul could ever be destroyed?
180. First give it your all and die trying. Then tell me not anyone can do anything
181. You can't get strong if you won't admit that you are weak
182. There is always a chance a meteor will strike and kill me, But I'm not going to walk looking up for the rest of my life
183. Some people will believe in you no matter how many times you fail and some people will never believe in you no matter how many times you succeed
184. Just because the world is ending doesn't mean it's the end of the world