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.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat 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.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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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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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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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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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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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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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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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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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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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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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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