168 originals
Experience.
Creativity before productivity.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You are here.
Truth, Perception
The obstacle is the way.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Process vs. plan.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Value is subjective.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction.
Hierarchy.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Labor, leverage.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Alan Watts
Truth
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Said, done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The Overthinker.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The giver is the recipient.
Well done is better than well said.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Building vs. betting.
Appreciation.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Learning.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
It's all relative.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Equity unites, politics divides.
