168 originals
More before better.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Vision
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The obstacle is the way.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
More ≠ more.
Talk is cheap.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hours vs. Iterations
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Experience is up only.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Shoot.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Think of many things; do one.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
80:20
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Generalist, specialist.
Movement, action.
Resistance lifts.
Distraction.
Alan Watts
The giver is the recipient.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Cover, story.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Chronos, Kairos.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Work vs. Luck
Creativity before productivity.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
