168 originals
Creativity before productivity.
Said, done.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Truth, trend.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Appreciation.
Chronos, Kairos.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Comfort vs. pain.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
+2 vs. x2
Builder, investor, trader.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Experience.
The first step is the steepest.
Generalist, specialist.
Slow down.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hierarchy.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Value is subjective.
Vision
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
More before better.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Do less, do more.
Distraction is dilution.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Cover, story.
More ≠ more.
You are here.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
