168 originals
Alan Watts
No, it took me my whole life.
Do less, do more.
Distraction.
Map ≠ Territory
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
View reading as an investment.
The giver is the recipient.
You are what you think you are.
More before better.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hours vs. Iterations
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Done is better than perfect.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You are here.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It's all relative.
More moves and less chat.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Said, done.
Truth, Perception
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
Truth
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Labor, leverage.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Each man believes only his experience.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Movement, action.
Shoot.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Experience.
No one is coming to save you.
