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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c45f9b0 | Perfectionism rarely begets perfection--only disappointment. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 79b166a | every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 30c9d9e | to separate reliable signals from deceptive ones, to filter out prejudice, expectation, and fear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 57442f1 | He was inclined to see the opportunity in every disaster. To that | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 310f506 | He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d999be1 | that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a11435e | how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 585d4bd | You will learn that this reaction determines how successful we will be in overcoming-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cd62ff9 | or possibly thriving because of--them. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| da9d94b | Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 04d31bf | Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7614f7b | Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 21ad29d | We can learn to focus on what things really are. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c28c634 | Our brains evolved for an environment very different from the one we currently inhabit. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 42f0955 | As a result, we carry all kinds of biological baggage. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fd7b142 | Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f4f07a6 | it certainly feels that way sometimes. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3f23248 | If an unjust prison sentence can be not only salvaged but transformative and beneficial, then for our purposes, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a60fa3b | To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 16298a7 | One does not magically get one's act together--it is a matter of many individual choices. It's a matter of getting up at the right time, making your bed, resisting shortcuts, investing in yourself, doing your work. And make no mistake: while the individual action is small, its cumulative impact is not. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e422f68 | learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2f0ee7a | In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation--as well as the destruction--of | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 39dc94d | destruction--of every one of our obstacles. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 95fa063 | Again, the event is the same: Someone messed up. But the evaluation and the outcome are different. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b8acbdf | With one approach you took advantage; with the other you succumbed to anger or fear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8220358 | Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn't mean you have to agree. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3ace256 | doesn't mean you have to agree. Just | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c3bea8f | We can stop seeing the "problems" in front of us as problems." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3b4735d | Our safety is not truly at risk here--there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e23bd10 | Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d014499 | without the pestilence of panic or fear. Rockefeller | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 94fd63c | We can see disaster rationally. Or rather, like Rockefeller, we can see opportunity in every disaster, | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 98ac446 | and transform that negative situation into an education, a skill set, or a fortune. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f438dd6 | Seen properly, everything that happens--be it an economic crash or a personal tragedy--is a chance to move forward. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c9462e6 | To steady our nerves To ignore what disturbs or limits others To place things in perspective To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 092ab3a | To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9535d9f | We decide whether we'll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe something that is untrue | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2d927fb | our purposes, nothing we'll experience is likely without potential benefit. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 71e84ac | To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f413163 | Instead, she simply chose to see each situation for what it could be-- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c87d280 | today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bb0ba8c | That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin," Montaigne" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1476b48 | I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c8c301c | I can't call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write, even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person is working for, I can't deem them industrious. . . . I can if the end they work for is their own ruling principle, having it be and remain in constant harmony with Nature." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.4.41; 43 What are the chances that the busiest person you know is actually the most productive? We tend to .. | Ryan Holiday |