What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
RYAN HOLIDAYOur 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.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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Great times are great softeners.
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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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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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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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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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