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Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Do less, do more.
More ≠ more.
Perspective.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Creativity before productivity.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Distraction is dilution.
Resistance lifts.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Everyone, Someone.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth, trend.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The first step is the steepest.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Banks vs. Blockchains
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Comfort vs. pain.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You are here.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Failure = feedback.
Movement, action.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Hare & tortoise.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth
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.
More moves and less chat.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Truth.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Learning.
Generalist, specialist.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.