168 originals
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Resistance lifts.
Experience is up only.
Truth, trend.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Building vs. betting.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Chronos, Kairos.
More moves and less chat.
The obstacle is the way.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The first step is the steepest.
Perspective.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
+2 vs. x2
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
80:20
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Truth.
Value is subjective.
Truth
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Banks vs. Blockchains
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Each man believes only his experience.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Done is better than perfect.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Comfort vs. pain.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Movement, action.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
You are here.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Experience.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Talk is cheap.
Hours vs. Iterations
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
