168 originals
More before better.
Hare & tortoise.
Chronos, Kairos.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Work vs. Luck
Distraction.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Talk is cheap.
Truth, Perception
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The obstacle is the way.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Said, done.
Reason for being
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Truth
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Do less, do more.
The first step is the steepest.
Slow down.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Comfort vs. pain.
Well done is better than well said.
Experience.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Labor, leverage.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Each man believes only his experience.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Numbers obscure nuance.
Hierarchy.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Experience is up only.
You are what you think you are.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
+2 vs. x2
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No, it took me my whole life.
