168 originals
Value is subjective.
It's all relative.
Experience.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Everyone, Someone.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Distraction.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Realize.
Alan Watts
The Overthinker.
Movement, action.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Said, done.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The obstacle is the way.
It took me years to play like myself.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
No, it took me my whole life.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Each man believes only his experience.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Vision
80:20
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Hare & tortoise.
Process vs. plan.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More ≠ more.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
View reading as an investment.
Map ≠ Territory
Cover, story.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth, Perception
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Think of many things; do one.
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.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
