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Alan Watts
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Cover, story.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Building vs. betting.
Switching costs.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Done is better than perfect.
Distraction.
Think of many things; do one.
Truth, Perception
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Value is subjective.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You are here.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The giver is the recipient.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Appreciation.
Each man believes only his experience.
+2 vs. x2
Shoot.
Reason for being
Mindset vs. Mind set
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
More ≠ more.
Equity unites, politics divides.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Movement, action.
Knowing vs. understanding.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Labor, leverage.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
It's all relative.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
More before better.
Process vs. plan.
Everyone, Someone.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It took me years to play like myself.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
No, it took me my whole life.
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