168 originals
Alan Watts
Hours vs. Iterations
Experience.
The first step is the steepest.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
More ≠ more.
Value is subjective.
The obstacle is the way.
Chronos, Kairos.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Generalist, specialist.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Said, done.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The giver is the recipient.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Distraction is dilution.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
More before better.
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.
Slow down.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Everyone, Someone.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Talk is cheap.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
