168 originals
Experience.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Done is better than perfect.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction, focus.
Work vs. Luck
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Builder, investor, trader.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
Process vs. plan.
Appreciation.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Each man believes only his experience.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Distraction.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Value is subjective.
No, it took me my whole life.
Knowing vs. understanding.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Resistance lifts.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Hierarchy.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth, Perception
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Alan Watts
80:20
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Shoot.
Everyone, Someone.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hare & tortoise.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You are here.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Switching costs.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Failure = feedback.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
