Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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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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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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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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Great times are great softeners.
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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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Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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