168 originals
Creativity before productivity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Distraction is dilution.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
The obstacle is the way.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Cover, story.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Hours vs. Iterations
Movement, action.
Perspective.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Experience is up only.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Vision
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Resistance lifts.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
More before better.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Value is subjective.
Truth.
Reason for being
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Don't just do something, stand there.
No one is coming to save you.
The giver is the recipient.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Slow down.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Numbers obscure nuance.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Building vs. betting.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Banks vs. Blockchains
