168 originals
Knowing vs. understanding.
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.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
80:20
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Slow down.
Hare & tortoise.
More moves and less chat.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Distraction.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Distraction, focus.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Value is subjective.
Creativity before productivity.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The giver is the recipient.
Think of many things; do one.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Everyone, Someone.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Building vs. betting.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth, Perception
Comfort vs. pain.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Truth
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
+2 vs. x2
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Builder, investor, trader.
Alan Watts
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Perspective.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
No, it took me my whole life.
Movement, action.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
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.
Banks vs. Blockchains
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Appreciation.
