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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df4e46e | So today, as RSS buttons disappear from browsers and blogs, just know that this happened on purpose, so that readers could be deceived more easily. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c1d9352 | If we're to overcome our obstacles, this is the message to broadcast--internally and externally. We will not be stopped by failure, we will not be rushed or distracted by external noise. We will chisel and peg away at the obstacle until it is gone. Resistance is futile. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 06f99c7 | Determination, if you think about it, is invincible. Nothing other than death can prevent us from following Churchill's old acronym: KBO. Keep Buggering On. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d14f187 | Doing new things invariably means obstacles. A new path is, by definition, uncleared. Only with persistence and time can we cut away debris and remove impediments. Only in struggling with the impediments that made others quit can we find ourselves on untrodden territory--only by persisting and resisting can we learn what others were too impatient to be taught. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3485bb9 | We spend a lot of time thinking about how things are supposed to be, or what the rules say we should do. Trying to get it all perfect. We tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right, or once we're sure we can trust this or that. When, really, it'd be better to focus on making due with what we've got. On focusing on results instead of pretty methods. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 23277cf | Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c909737 | If something is in our control, its worth every ounce of our efforts and energy. Death is not one of those things. It is not in our control how long we'll live or what will come and take us from life. But thinking about mortality creates real perspective, and urgency. It doesn't need to be depressing. Because its invigorating. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 69778c0 | If an emotion can't change the condition or the situation you're dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8ef7b61 | Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power. But every ounce of energy directed at things we can't actually influence is wasted--self-indulgent and self-destructive. So much power--ours, and other people's--is frittered away in this manner. To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice--a choice that is up to us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 346f3f1 | it turns out that the more unbelievable headlines and articles readers are exposed to, the more it warps their compass--making the real seem fake and the fake seem real. The more extreme a headline, the longer participants spend processing it, and the more likely they are to believe it. The more times an unbelievable claim is seen, the more likely they are to believe it.4 | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 963322e | never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f0e23fc | A man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able--always remembering the results will be infinitesimal--and to attend to his own soul. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cd6d0bf | Welcome to the power of perception. Applicable in each and every situation, impossible to obstruct. It can only be relinquished. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b85f1d2 | take the trouble you're dealing with and use it as an opportunity to focus on the present moment. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 13d61d9 | I know you had nothing to do with the injustice that brought me to this jail, so I'm willing to stay here until I get out. But I will not, under any circumstances, be treated like a prisoner--because I am not and never will be powerless. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6ec06f8 | Each new work competes for customers with everything that came before it and everything that will come after. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d86a4db | Life speeds on the bold and favors the brave. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8b2b163 | You don't convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cc1d4b7 | What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit. | explicit implicit resolution | Ryan Holiday | |
| 336fc55 | In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.' " Many" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bfe0b8c | There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d7ad9ff | We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible. When really only one thing is at fault: our attitude and approach. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 385a6a9 | Great times are great softeners | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6c4d4f5 | Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ae23cb5 | Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dbbafd1 | Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history. | Erik Larson | ||
| 09ea63f | You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vision; to let us dream and drift through heaven for six months, and then to take it out of our lives. | madness murder magic dreams the-worlds-fair world-fair | Erik Larson | |
| ee835f7 | It amused him that women as a class were so wonderfully vulnerable, as if they believed that the codes of conduct that applied in their safe little hometowns, like Alva, Clinton, and Percy, might actually still apply once they had left behind their dusty, kerosene-scented parlors and set out on their own. | Erik Larson | ||
| f92175f | I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from deep apprehension and dwelling upon elements too vast to be yet comprehended or in any way controlled by counsel. | Erik Larson | ||
| d461fc4 | Why had Holmes taken the children? Why had he engineered that contorted journey from city to city? What power did Holmes possess that gave him such control? There was something about Holmes that Geyer just did not understand. Every crime had a motive. But the force that propelled Holmes seemed to exist outside the world of Geyer's experience. He kept coming back to the same conclusion: Holmes was enjoying himself. He had arranged the insura.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 6e7a19c | Belief in such things was widespread in America and Britain at the start of the twentieth century, when an Ouija board was a regular fixture in drawing rooms, to be brought out after dinner for impromptu seances. | Erik Larson | ||
| 83dc6d2 | No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap. | wind weather | Erik Larson | |
| 878f3c1 | As Wilson mourned his wife, German forces in Belgium entered quiet towns and villages, took civilian hostages, and executed them to discourage resistances. In the town of Dinant, German soldiers shot 612 men, women, and children. The American press called such atrocities acts of "frightfulness," the word then used to describe what later generations would call terrorism. On August 25, German forces bean an assault on the Belgian city of Louv.. | world-war-1 | Erik Larson | |
| 7a7ace8 | As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all. | Erik Larson | ||
| 191edf5 | The club also had the custom of sending robed members to kidnap visiting celebrities and steal them away in a black coach with covered windows, all without saying a word. | Erik Larson | ||
| a86d942 | I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it. | erik-larson the-devil-in-the-white-city | Erik Larson | |
| 0338355 | One night, during a storm, an engineer named W. W. Bradfield was sitting at the Wimereux transmitter, when suddenly the door to the room crashed open. In the portal stood a man disheveled by the storm and apparently experiencing some form of internal agony. He blamed the transmissions and shouted that they must stop. The revolver in his hand imparted a certain added gravity. Bradfield responded with the calm of a watchmaker. He told the int.. | Erik Larson | ||
| e5f34f7 | Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil's comedy. | Erik Larson | ||
| 28c810c | Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. This alone began to draw an increased number of visitors, especially young couples locked in the rictus of Victorian courtship and needful of quiet dark places. | Erik Larson | ||
| bc8fd5f | why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world? | Erik Larson | ||
| 4cc4543 | To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years." | Erik Larson | ||
| 6079f79 | But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents. | Erik Larson | ||
| 903f019 | If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about. | Erik Larson | ||
| 4ff6058 | The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. | Erik Larson |