168 originals
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Creativity before productivity.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Resistance lifts.
+2 vs. x2
Shoot.
View reading as an investment.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Numbers obscure nuance.
More before better.
Slow down.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You are here.
Process vs. plan.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Perspective.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Fear is the mind-killer.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Mindset vs. Mind set
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
No, it took me my whole life.
80:20
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
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.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Building vs. betting.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Appreciation.
Hare & tortoise.
It's all relative.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hierarchy.
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.
Talk is cheap.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction.
