“Fear is debilitating, distracting, tiring, and often irrational. Pericles understood this completely, and he was able to use the power of perspective… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness -- these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist -- think of the cold sweat when you're stressed… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Jobs learned to reject the first judgments and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are almost always rooted… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving, acceptance, mental… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“With a business, we take most failures less personally and understand they’re part of the process.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Many creatives want to be just the creator, or only “the idea guy.” They like that because it’s sexy and because that’s what comes… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“From Rusticus … I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Remember: even what we get for free has a cost, if only in what we pay to store it—in our garages and in our… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
