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Don't just do something, stand there.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The Overthinker.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Reason for being
Alan Watts
Map ≠ Territory
Mindset vs. Mind set
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
+2 vs. x2
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
The giver is the recipient.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
No one is coming to save you.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Well done is better than well said.
Resistance lifts.
Work vs. Luck
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Equity unites, politics divides.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Realize.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
Said, done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Building vs. betting.
You are what you think you are.
More moves and less chat.
Process vs. plan.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Truth, Perception
The obstacle is the way.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Generalist, specialist.