168 originals
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Done is better than perfect.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
Alan Watts
Distraction, focus.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Well done is better than well said.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Appreciation.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Work vs. Luck
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Builder, investor, trader.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first step is the steepest.
Chronos, Kairos.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The giver is the recipient.
Hierarchy.
It's all relative.
More ≠ more.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Value is subjective.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
View reading as an investment.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Experience.
No one is coming to save you.
Perspective.
Building vs. betting.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The Overthinker.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Switching costs.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
More moves and less chat.
Hare & tortoise.
Creativity before productivity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Shoot.
