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.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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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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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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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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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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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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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