Great times are great softeners.
RYAN HOLIDAYGreat times are great softeners.
RYAN HOLIDAYDiscipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.
RYAN HOLIDAYOrdinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
RYAN HOLIDAYNo one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
RYAN HOLIDAYTrue will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhere the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhen intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
RYAN HOLIDAYFocus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
RYAN HOLIDAYIt’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
RYAN HOLIDAYConning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
RYAN HOLIDAYProblems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
RYAN HOLIDAYFailure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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