168 originals
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Reason for being
Experience.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
You are what you think you are.
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.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Creativity before productivity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Building vs. betting.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
View reading as an investment.
80:20
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.
Failure = feedback.
Value is subjective.
Hare & tortoise.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Hierarchy.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth, trend.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Truth.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Process vs. plan.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Everyone, Someone.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
More before better.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Cover, story.
No one is coming to save you.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Distraction, focus.
