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.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
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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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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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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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 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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Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
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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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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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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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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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