168 originals
Truth
Said, done.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Each man believes only his experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The obstacle is the way.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Alan Watts
Fear is the mind-killer.
Experience.
Building vs. betting.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
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.
Creativity before productivity.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Mindset vs. Mind set
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Generalist, specialist.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
View reading as an investment.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Knowing vs. understanding.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Don't just do something, stand there.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Vision
Bull, Bear, Builder.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth, Perception
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You are here.
Appreciation.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Talk is cheap.
More moves and less chat.
Distraction, focus.
Value is subjective.
Truth, trend.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You are what you think you are.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Distraction.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
