Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file.
- Heights are driven by process. Bottoms are driven by events.
- Above all, do not lie to yourself.
- At first, few see the opportunity. Eventually, everyone does. At the end, they imagine it will go on forever.
- Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
- It’s not what you buy, it’s what you pay that counts.
- Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.—Winston Churchill
- The true test of character isn’t crisis but power.
- The risk you didn’t see is the one most likely to get you.
- Sizing is more important than leverage.
- Movements must move.
- Focus on the long term and avoid the short term distractions.
- The most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
- Mental clarity has far more to do with honesty than with intelligence.
- People without goals find meaning in drama.
- Art is not a message to be decoded. Viewers bring new meaning through interpretation.
- Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. —Tom Robbins
- Politics are downstream from economies. Economies are downstream of markets. Recessions don’t cause market crashes. Market crashes cause recessions.
- What are you doing about what you are not worried about? The things you don’t worry about drive underperformance.
- Whatever you think should happen is not as important as what is happening.
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi
- Vision without execution is a dream. Let the sleeper awaken!
- If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?—Rumi
- Gaps fill.
- Intensity beats extensity, every time.
- No tree grows to heaven.
- To the blind man, everything comes out of nowhere.
- Between the Idea and the Reality…. Falls the Shadow.” —T. S. Eliot
- Three ways to learn: reflection, imitation or experience – best to worst.
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