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.
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.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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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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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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Ordinary 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.
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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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