168 originals
Alan Watts
Labor, leverage.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The obstacle is the way.
Well done is better than well said.
Comfort vs. pain.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Appreciation.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The first step is the steepest.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Talk is cheap.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Building vs. betting.
Shoot.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
More moves and less chat.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Slow down.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
Do less, do more.
Experience.
Truth.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Process vs. plan.
Everyone, Someone.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More ≠ more.
Work vs. Luck
Think of many things; do one.
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 you compare, the less you differentiate.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Builder, investor, trader.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Failure = feedback.
Learning.
Realize.
It is really hard to make something easy.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
