168 originals
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth, Perception
Creativity before productivity.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
+2 vs. x2
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The giver is the recipient.
Reason for being
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Experience.
Hare & tortoise.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Experience is up only.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Work vs. Luck
More moves and less chat.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Process vs. plan.
Think of many things; do one.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The obstacle is the way.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Don't just do something, stand there.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Each man believes only his experience.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The Overthinker.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Value is subjective.
Learning.
Shoot.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Alan Watts
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
More before better.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Hierarchy.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hours vs. Iterations
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Switching costs.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
