168 originals
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
View reading as an investment.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Said, done.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Creativity before productivity.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More before better.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Truth, trend.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Generalist, specialist.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
More ≠ more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
+2 vs. x2
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Distraction.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Think of many things; do one.
You are here.
Experience.
Well done is better than well said.
Truth.
Value is subjective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Process vs. plan.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Alan Watts
Reason for being
Switching costs.
Map ≠ Territory
The obstacle is the way.
It took me years to play like myself.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Shoot.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Hours vs. Iterations
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The giver is the recipient.
Chronos, Kairos.
Hierarchy.
