168 originals
Perspective.
No one is coming to save you.
Experience is up only.
Experience.
Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Work vs. Luck
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Done is better than perfect.
Cover, story.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Well done is better than well said.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The obstacle is the way.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Movement, action.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Labor, leverage.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Do less, do more.
Switching costs.
Truth
Learning.
Alan Watts
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It is really hard to make something easy.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
+2 vs. x2
Talk is cheap.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Map ≠ Territory
Don't just do something, stand there.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
