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.
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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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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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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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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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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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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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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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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Great times are great softeners.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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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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