168 originals
Experience.
Perspective.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Chronos, Kairos.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Appreciation.
Distraction.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Movement, action.
Truth, Perception
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Comfort vs. pain.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Creativity before productivity.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are what you think you are.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Switching costs.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Work vs. Luck
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
More before better.
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.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Truth
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Do less, do more.
Cover, story.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Slow down.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
No, it took me my whole life.
View reading as an investment.
Learning.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Process vs. plan.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Map ≠ Territory
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction is dilution.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Hierarchy.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
