168 originals
Perspective.
Reason for being
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Hours vs. Iterations
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth.
Building vs. betting.
No one is coming to save you.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth
Mindset vs. Mind set
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Alan Watts
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Done is better than perfect.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Hare & tortoise.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Experience.
Resistance lifts.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Distraction, focus.
Failure = feedback.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
+2 vs. x2
Slow down.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Process vs. plan.
You are here.
Realize.
View reading as an investment.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Shoot.
