168 originals
Truth, trend.
Hare & tortoise.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Experience.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Hours vs. Iterations
The giver is the recipient.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Do less, do more.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It took me years to play like myself.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Map ≠ Territory
Numbers obscure nuance.
Hierarchy.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Think of many things; do one.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It's all relative.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Distraction.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
No one is coming to save you.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Perspective.
The first step is the steepest.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More before better.
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.
Appreciation.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Reason for being
It is really hard to make something easy.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Cover, story.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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.
