Habits Quote by Ryan Holiday Download Open image ““We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.”” — Ryan Holiday ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habits
“But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Clear your mind of prejudices and assumptions, and look to define the problem as something you can objectively measure to determine whether the problem… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad… — Cathy Burnham Martin Copy Share Image
“In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don’t really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.” — Will Storr Copy Share Image
“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“when something terrible happens, it can be important to consider how things could be worse.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“When bad things happen, try not to think of them as problems...think of them as fascinating developments.” — Hunter Vaughan 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
“Malchut is also the Alma D’Itgalya, “the Revealed World.” Here our latent potential is actualized through behavior and expression.” — Laibl Wolf Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image