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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Ryan Holiday

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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Information Intelligence Myself People Planning Reading Simplicity
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Action Body Follow Head Perspective Right
What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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Explicit Known Resolution
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
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Break Decision Resistance Situation
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Bad Problem Rare Thinking
What 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.
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Ability Learning People Problem Reason Writing Yourself
The 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.
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Leaving Over Power Win Word
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.
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Advantage Discipline Fear Panic Perception
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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Entrepreneur Faith Inspirational Invention
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.
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Endurance Finding Greatness Happiness Learning Love Need
No 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.
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Argument Easy Pay Production Professional Simplicity Transformation Writing Yourself
It’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.
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Decision Encouragement Life Persistence Plant Quit Yourself
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction

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