Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYDiscipline 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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Great times are great softeners.
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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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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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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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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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