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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c29413 | Let's be honest. Most of the time we don't find ourselves in horrible situations we must simply endure. Rather, we face some minor disadvantage or get stuck with some less-than-favorable conditions. Or we're trying to do something really hard and find ourselves outmatched, overstretched, or out | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6639bdd | When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 355354c | exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c3efcec | We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people's validation, recognition, rewards. It's far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your pare.. | ego egoism motivation peace-of-mind pride self-respect | Ryan Holiday | |
| 2fe05aa | You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7ac0905 | The first product of self-knowledge is humility, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 83643cc | See much, study much, suffer much, that is the path to wisdom. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 06550c1 | So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. Sherman | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9d87632 | Say little, do much | ryan holiday | ||
| 846985d | As James Basford remarked, "It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity." Well, that's where we are now." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9cae0d4 | According to Seneca, the Greek word euthymia is one we should think of often: it is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In other words, it's not about beating the other guy. It's not about having more than the others. It's about being what you are, and being as good as possible at it, without succumbing to all the things that draw you away from it. It's about going .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a16ab95 | With success, particularly power, come some of the greatest and most dangerous delusions: entitlement, control, and paranoia. Hopefully you won't find yourself so crazed that you start anthropomorphizing, and inflicting retribution on inanimate objects. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 72a905d | A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d2fe4b6 | The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition. That's | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 51f27ce | Without an accurate accounting of our own abilities compared to others, what we have is not confidence but delusion. How are we supposed to reach, motivate, or lead other people if we can't relate to their needs--because we've lost touch with our own? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c8f8c6d | This is why we can't let externals determine whether something was worth it or not. It's on us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c64581f | Precisely what makes us so promising as thinkers, doers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, what drives us to the top of those fields, makes us vulnerable to this darker side of the psyche. Now | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 774aa59 | We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek." Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 04e80a5 | A man is worked upon by what he works on," Frederick Douglass once said." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4ff9734 | We can't keep learning if we think we already know everything." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 99" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 347e562 | If you're not still learning, you're already dying." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 104" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f934743 | Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it. | work | Ryan Holiday | |
| bf62bbc | The power of being a student is not just that it is an extended period of instruction, it also places the ego and ambition in someone else's hands. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7de9e11 | Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. --LAO TZU | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0d17312 | Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, "it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably." -- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 26cc5e1 | A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. --ALAN WATTS | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e80ce2b | What if someone despises me? Let them see to it. But I will see to it that I won't be found doing or saying anything contemptible. What if someone hates me? Let them see to that. But I will see to it that I'm kind and good-natured to all, and prepared to show even the hater where they went wrong. Not in a critical way, or to show off my patience, but genuinely and usefully." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.13" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 207e259 | There is another apt Latin expression: Materiam superabat opus. (The workmanship is better than the material.) The material we've been given genetically, emotionally, financially, that's where we begin. We don't control that. We do control what we make of that material, and whether we squander it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5d78768 | Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.47" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 84ae8ed | Here's the other part: once you win, everyone is gunning for you. It's during your moment at the top that you can afford ego the least--because the stakes are so much higher, the margins for error are so much smaller. If anything, your ability to listen, to hear feedback, to improve and grow matter more now than ever before. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 15852ad | today, though, if someone were to hand you a hundred-dollar bill, you might rub it between your fingers or hold it up to the light, just to confirm it wasn't a fake. All this for an imaginary currency, an invention of society. The point of this metaphor is to highlight how much effort we put into making sure money is real, whereas we accept potentially life-changing thoughts or assumptions without so much as a question. One | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9c2a041 | The most critical part of this system was the belief that you, the student who has sought out Stoicism, have the most important job: to be good! To be wise. "To remain the person that philosophy wished to make us." Do your job today. Whatever happens, whatever other people's jobs happen to be, do yours. Be good." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 852852a | If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters--don't wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself." --EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 13a" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d104d64 | The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later. | humility | Ryan Holiday | |
| a1e95ec | Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. Only an ingrate would fail to see that these great architects of venerable thoughts were born for us and have designed a way of life for us." --SENECA" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3b0f32f | If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn't you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then, remember in life that your duties are the sum of individual acts. Pay attention to each of these as you do your duty ... just methodically complete your task." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.26" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 23104f4 | In Literature it is only the wild that attracts us. | literature tameness wildness writing | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 2a4b0ea | Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 3e88669 | Y con animo sombrio penso en que aun estaba muy lejos de llegar a algo con una chica si solo pretendia idolatrarla y despues morir noblemente por ella. | humor love | Thomas Brussig | |
| 1a3d11b | Kak mozhe na dete da se dava taka bezrazs'dno tsial puding! - vikna tia. - Che s nego mogat da se nakhraniat sedemdeset i sedem korabni talas'ma. | James Krüss | ||
| 6d97009 | How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable? | Reza Aslan | ||
| 199f1af | He had been summoned to appear before a meeting of the Apostolic Council to defend his self-designated role as missionary to the gentiles (Paul insists he was not summoned to Jerusalem but went of his own accord because Jesus told him to). | Reza Aslan | ||
| cea9d9e | It is astonishing that centuries of biblical scholarship have miscast these words as an appeal by Jesus to put aside "the things of this world"--taxes and tributes--and focus one's heart instead on the only things that matter: worship and obedience to God. Such an interpretation perfectly accommodates the perception of Jesus as a detached, celestial spirit wholly unconcerned with material matters, a curious assertion about a man who not onl.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 3660059 | The principal task of the messiah, who was popularly believed to be the descendant of King David, was to rebuild David's kingdom and reestablish the nation of Israel. Thus, to call oneself the messiah at the time of the Roman occupation was tantamount to declaring war on Rome. | Reza Aslan |