168 originals
Distraction.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Experience.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Shoot.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Chronos, Kairos.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction, focus.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The giver is the recipient.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Alan Watts
It is really hard to make something easy.
Perspective.
Slow down.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Done is better than perfect.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Comfort vs. pain.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Do less, do more.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Truth, trend.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The obstacle is the way.
Vision
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Talk is cheap.
Everyone, Someone.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Builder, investor, trader.
Labor, leverage.
It took me years to play like myself.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
