168 originals
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Learning.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Comfort vs. pain.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction, focus.
Labor, leverage.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More ≠ more.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
+2 vs. x2
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Building vs. betting.
Do less, do more.
Builder, investor, trader.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Alan Watts
Reason for being
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Everyone, Someone.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Appreciation.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Fear is the mind-killer.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It took me years to play like myself.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Value is subjective.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Talk is cheap.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Well done is better than well said.
Chronos, Kairos.
You are here.
Truth, Perception
Perspective.
More before better.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
