168 originals
Alan Watts
More before better.
Experience.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Reason for being
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Movement, action.
The first step is the steepest.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You are here.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Do less, do more.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Value is subjective.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Building vs. betting.
Hare & tortoise.
View reading as an investment.
Truth
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Perspective.
No one is coming to save you.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Process vs. plan.
Work vs. Luck
The obstacle is the way.
Labor, leverage.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Well done is better than well said.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Truth, trend.
You are what you think you are.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
No, it took me my whole life.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Said, done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Map ≠ Territory
Truth.
Creativity before productivity.
+2 vs. x2
Thought, Spoken, Heard
