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Great times are great softeners.

Ryan Holiday

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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Ambitious Disguise Humility Kindness Quiet True Willing
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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Argument Easy Pay Production Professional Simplicity Transformation Writing Yourself
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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Explicit Known Resolution
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Bad Problem Rare Thinking
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
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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Endurance Finding Greatness Happiness Learning Love Need
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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Information Intelligence Myself People Planning Reading Simplicity
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Adversity Choice Hard Time Yourself
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
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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Evidence Myself Need Smart
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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Advantage Discipline Fear Panic Perception
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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Decision Encouragement Life Persistence Plant Quit Yourself
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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Condition Forget Improvement Obstacle Opportunity Ourselves Path
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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Goodness Ourselves Perception Story
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster

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