168 originals
Hare & tortoise.
Work vs. Luck
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, Perception
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.
Everyone, Someone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You are here.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Movement, action.
Switching costs.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
+2 vs. x2
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More before better.
Labor, leverage.
Truth
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
No, it took me my whole life.
80:20
Failure = feedback.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Perspective.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Reason for being
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Hours vs. Iterations
Experience is up only.
No one is coming to save you.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Realize.
Map ≠ Territory
Done is better than perfect.
You are what you think you are.
Talk is cheap.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
