168 originals
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Failure = feedback.
Think of many things; do one.
Map ≠ Territory
It's all relative.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Creativity before productivity.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Building vs. betting.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Everyone, Someone.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Done is better than perfect.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction.
Labor, leverage.
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 only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Realize.
Value is subjective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The giver is the recipient.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You are here.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Appreciation.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Builder, investor, trader.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Movement, action.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
80:20
Each man believes only his experience.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Hierarchy.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
+2 vs. x2
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
