Ryan Holiday Quotes

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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?
• When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
• Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
• Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
• 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.
• 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…
• We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
• 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…
• Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
• You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large…
• You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
• 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…
• 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…
• The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
• What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
• The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
• True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
• 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…
• Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.
• 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…

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