168 originals
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth, Perception
Distraction.
Generalist, specialist.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Do less, do more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Work vs. Luck
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Switching costs.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Hierarchy.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Hours vs. Iterations
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Each man believes only his experience.
Slow down.
Well done is better than well said.
Comfort vs. pain.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Alan Watts
Observer, expert, practitioner.
+2 vs. x2
No, it took me my whole life.
Resistance lifts.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Experience.
More before better.
Reason for being
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Everyone, Someone.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Shoot.
No one is coming to save you.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
