What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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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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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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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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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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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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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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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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Great times are great softeners.
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