168 originals
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Work vs. Luck
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction.
Chronos, Kairos.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
View reading as an investment.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Truth, trend.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Appreciation.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
It is really hard to make something easy.
Hours vs. Iterations
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Truth.
Reason for being
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More moves and less chat.
It's all relative.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Realize.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Distraction is dilution.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Switching costs.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Think of many things; do one.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The giver is the recipient.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Experience is up only.
Creativity before productivity.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Alan Watts
Labor, leverage.
