168 originals
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Done is better than perfect.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
Slow down.
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.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth, Perception
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Hare & tortoise.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Work vs. Luck
The Overthinker.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
No one is coming to save you.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The obstacle is the way.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
No, it took me my whole life.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Movement, action.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Value is subjective.
Distraction is dilution.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Each man believes only his experience.
Think of many things; do one.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Perspective.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Switching costs.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
More before better.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Truth, trend.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Creativity before productivity.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Hierarchy.
