168 originals
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Builder, investor, trader.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Do less, do more.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
+2 vs. x2
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Cover, story.
Truth
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Mindset vs. Mind set
More ≠ more.
Creativity before productivity.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Reason for being
The Overthinker.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Vision
Truth, trend.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
80:20
Truth.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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.
Realize.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Experience.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
No one is coming to save you.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Distraction, focus.
Alan Watts
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Hierarchy.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
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.
