168 originals
Slow down.
Alan Watts
Observer, expert, practitioner.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Experience is up only.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Each man believes only his experience.
The first step is the steepest.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Said, done.
Process vs. plan.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Generalist, specialist.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Distraction, focus.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Distraction.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Experience.
Well done is better than well said.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Do less, do more.
Shoot.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth, Perception
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Hare & tortoise.
It's all relative.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
Perspective.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hours vs. Iterations
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
NFTs, explained.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Appreciation.
