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Alan Watts
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
80:20
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
Building vs. betting.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Resistance lifts.
No one is coming to save you.
Chronos, Kairos.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Reason for being
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Truth.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It's all relative.
The giver is the recipient.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Said, done.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Think of many things; do one.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Shoot.
More moves and less chat.
Slow down.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Distraction, focus.
Fear is the mind-killer.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Failure = feedback.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
You are what you think you are.
Map ≠ Territory
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Well done is better than well said.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
