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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 753870e | You've got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you're in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaster). How far are you willing to go? What are you willing to do about it? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3a0c7a0 | In actuality, the will has a lot more to do with surrender than with strength. Try "God willing" over "the will to win" or "willing it into existence," for even those attributes can be broken. True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2c10569 | Pageview journalism treats people by what they appear to want--from data that is unrepresentative to say the least--and gives them this and only this until they have forgotten that there could be anything else. It takes the audience at their worst and makes them worse. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 263eb59 | The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged chance, conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. --E. H. CHAPIN | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5f55f12 | the Stoic maxim: sustine et abstine. Bear and forbear. Acknowledge the pain but trod onward in your task. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9445142 | Take a good hard look at people's ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.38" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cb7af3c | The economics of the Internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important--and more profitable--than the truth. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 440bb32 | For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It's probably because it's been negatively associated with certain notions of violence or masculinity. But of course Earhart shows that that isn't true. In fact, on the side of her plane she painted the words, "Always think with your stick forward." That is: You can't ever let up your flying speed--if you do, you crash." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 015e9b5 | Wherever we are, whatever we're doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 51916c6 | How you do anything is how you can do everything. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3758d9e | At twenty-one, Richard Wright was not the world-famous author he would eventually be. But poor and black, he decided he would read and no one could stop him. Did he storm the library and make a scene? No, not in the Jim Crow South he didn't. Instead, he forged a note that said, "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?" (because no one would write that about themselves, right?), and checked them out wit.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 857a039 | you're so busy thinking about the future, you don't take any pride in the tasks you're given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn't who I am, it doesn't matter. Foolishness. Everything | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d22d4ec | sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a27e02e | What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. --WENDELL PHILLIPS I | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b2b5dc2 | The point is that most people start from disadvantage (often with no idea they are doing so) and do just fine. It's not unfair, it's universal. Those who survive it, survive because they took things day by day--that's the real secret. Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 20fb77e | Help your fellow humans thrive and survive, contribute your little bit to the universe before it swallows you up, and be happy with that. Lend a hand to others. Be strong for them, and it will make you stronger. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 554502c | Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --SHAKESPEARE | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 635feed | Adversity can harden you. Or it can loosen you up and make you better--if you let it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a151804 | Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them? We might not be emperors, but the world is still constantly testing us. It asks: Are you worthy? Can you get past the things that inevitably fall in your way? Will you stand up and show us what you're made of? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 23f7266 | when the fire is strong, it soon appropriates to itself the matter which is heaped on it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9f2d325 | It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life, during the Civil War, and the panics of 1873, 1907, and 1929. As he once put it: He was inclined to see the opportunity in every disaster. To that we could add: He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation. Within twenty years of that first crisi.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4829856 | Common wisdom provides us with the maxims: Beware the calm before the storm. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. The worst is yet to come. It gets worse before it gets better. The world might call you a pessimist. Who cares? It's far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard. It's better to meditate on what could happen, to probe for weaknesses in our plans, so those inevitable failures can be correctly pe.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7b650fc | The Way Through Them Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance--now at this very moment--of all external events. That's all you need. --MARCUS AURELIUS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a400dcc | No harshness, no deprivation, no toil should interfere with our empathy toward others. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 13e49e4 | Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0306e27 | The Things which hurt," Benjamin Franklin wrote, "instruct." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 635e737 | You don't convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cfbb18d | Richard Branson likes to say, is that "business opportunities are like buses; there's always another coming around." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 95c61d4 | sometimes being superficial--taking things only at first glance--is the most profound approach. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2f6133b | From good people you'll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you'll destroy such soul as you had." --MUSONIUS RUFUS, QUOTING THEOGNIS OF MEGARA, LECTURES, 11.53.21-22" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 771ed34 | In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 694f896 | To be or to do? Which way will you go? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 96ade07 | There's a quote from Bismarck that says, in effect, any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people's experience. This | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 52552ee | We can learn to perceive things differently, to cut through the illusions that others believe or fear. We can stop seeing the "problems" in front of us as problems. We can learn to focus on what things really are. Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds--that sacred place of reason, action and will--and throw.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a1d69cb | To be physically and mentally loose takes no talent. That's just recklessness. (We want right action, not action period.) To be physically and mentally tight? That's called anxiety. It doesn't work, either. Eventually we snap. But physical looseness combined with mental restraint? That is powerful. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6d73f47 | Getting upset is like continuing the dream while you're awake. The thing that provoked you wasn't real--but your reaction was. And so from the fake comes real consequences. Which is why you need to wake up right now instead of creating a nightmare. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2e10d1c | Doing new things invariably means obstacles. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 63aa589 | Face the symptoms. Cure the disease. Ego makes it so hard--it's easier to delay, to double down, to deliberately avoid seeing the changes we need to make in our lives. But change begins by hearing the criticism and the words of the people around you. Even if those words are mean spirited, angry, or hurtful. It means weighing them, discarding the ones that don't matter, and reflecting on the ones that do. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 58d585d | The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the. | poets | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e4602ca | Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life," he once said. "I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and half years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all along the way." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cf25529 | It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6628e8d | any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people's experience. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1c35aae | If you want momentum, you'll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f56dc21 | A true student is like a sponge. Absorbing what goes on around him, filtering it, latching on to what he can hold. A student is self-critical and self-motivated, always trying to improve his understanding so that he can move on to the next topic, the next challenge. A real student is also his own teacher and his own critic. There is no room for ego there. | Ryan Holiday |