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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76a86fc | Always prepared for disruption, always working that disruption into our plans. Fitted, as they say, for defeat or victory. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 111a017 | 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 clarity, pragmatism, unbiased thought, and duty. The Stoics were pioneers of the morning and nightly rituals: preparation in the morning, reflection in the evening. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3a2ca34 | John Glen, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, spent nearly a day in space still keeping his heart rate under a hundred beats per minute. That's a man not simply sitting at the controls but in control of his emotions. A man who had properly cultivated, what Tom Wolfe later called, "the Right Stuff." But you...confront a client or a stranger on the streets and your heart is liable to burst out of your chest; or you are called on.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3c6d00c | Of course, when pushed, the natural instinct is always to push back. But martial arts teach us that we have to ignore this impulse. We can't push back, we have to pull until opponents lose their balance. Then we make our move. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9d8b30b | What humans require in our ascent is purpose and realism. Purpose, you could say, is like passion with boundaries. Realism is detachment and perspective. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 264f830 | So why on earth do you need thanks or recognition for having done the right thing? It's your job. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f99daf6 | It feels good, but it's so very wrong. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cd4b793 | Tranquility can't be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgment--the rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternately rejecting and accepting things. What is the cause of this back and forth? It's because nothing is clear and they rely on the most uncertain guide--common opinion." --SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 95.57b-58a" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a26033a | Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on--it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance--unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 222b13c | In the end, the only way you can appreciate your progress is to stand on the edge of the hole you dug for yourself, look down inside it, and smile fondly at the bloody claw prints that marked your journey up the walls. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4c86817 | Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8ea26ba | The question we must ask for ourselves is: Are we going to be miserable just because other people are? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d157a80 | This obsession with the past, with something that someone did or how things should have been, as much as it hurts, is ego embodied. Everyone else has moved on, but you can't, because you can't see anything but your own way. You can't conceive of accepting that someone could hurt you, deliberately or otherwise. So you hate. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 93a979c | A MORNING RITUAL "Ask yourself the following first thing in the morning: * What am I lacking in attaining freedom from passion? * What for tranquility? * What am I? A mere body, estate-holder, or reputation? None of these things. * What, then? A rational being. * What then is demanded of me? Meditate on your actions. * How did I steer away from serenity? * What did I do that was unfriendly, unsocial, or uncaring? * What did I fail to do in .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b0a57b9 | As Deng Xiaoping once said, "I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." The Stoics had their own reminder: "Don't go expecting Plato's Republic." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8bc70dc | Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. --PUBLIUS SYRUS W | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e7268f7 | I have the power within me to keep that out. I can see the truth. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c3c8443 | An important place to begin in philosophy is this: a clear perception of one's own ruling principle. | discourses epictetus-stoicism | Ryan Holiday | |
| eb43ddf | Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room--until you change that with results." Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aad9b4c | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. --RICHARD FEYNMAN M | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d9e628f | Give yourself clarity, not sympathy. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f7aa6c9 | Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room--until you change that with results." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dfece7b | One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 21" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 973b1f7 | The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited--whose choices aren't hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don't fall into what repels them. Who wishes to live in deception--tripped up, mistaken, undisciplined, complaining, in a rut? No one. These are base people who don't live as they wish; and so, no base person is free." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.1-3a" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 47618f8 | Too many people think that great victories like Grant's and Edison's came from a flash of insight. That they cracked the problem with pure genius. In fact, it was the slow pressure, repeated from many different angles, the elimination of so many other more promising options, that slowly and surely churned the solution to the top of the pile. Their genius was unity of purpose, deafness to doubt, and the desire to stay at it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 76c0316 | Okay, you've got to do something very difficult. Don't focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow the process and not the prize. The | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 14a9cfc | Their lifestyle is the result of prioritizing. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6b4e5d9 | we believe in the obstacle more than in the goal, which will inevitably triumph? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d1f8390 | Cato practiced the kind of public speech capable of moving the masses, believing proper political philosophy takes care like any great city to maintain the warlike element. But he was never seen practicing in front of others, and no one ever heard him rehearse a speech. When he was told that people blamed him for his silence, he replied, 'Better they not blame my life. I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left u.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e7e266d | Appearances are deceiving. Having authority is not the same as being an authority. Having the right and being right are not the same either. Being promoted doesn't necessarily mean you're doing good work and it doesn't mean you are worthy of promotion (they call it failing upward in such bureaucracies). Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 43b4281 | Problems are rarely as bad as we think--or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think. It's | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e6454e9 | The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition." What holds you back? The Physical? Size. Race. Distance. Disability. Money. The Mental? Fear. Uncertainty. Inexperience. Prejudice. Perhaps people don't take you seriously. Or you think you're too old. Or you lack support or enough resources. Maybe laws or regulations restrict your options. Or your obligations do. Or f.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5d8e318 | The founding of a company, making money in the market, or the formation of an idea is messy. Reducing it to a narrative retroactively creates a clarity that never was and never will be there. When | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1703e8b | Once you start attacking an obstacle, quitting is not an option. | obstaclest option | Ryan Holiday | |
| d3bb1f4 | This book will share with you their collective wisdom in order to help you accomplish the very specific and increasingly urgent goal we all share: overcoming obstacles. Mental obstacles. Physical obstacles. Emotional obstacles. Perceived obstacles. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5522461 | The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b228f50 | Responsibility requires a readjustment and then increased clarity and purpose. First, setting the top-level goals and priorities of the organization and your life. Then enforcing and observing them. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5a22196 | Next, we must examine our impulses to act--that is, our motivations. Are we doing things for the right reasons? Or do we act because we haven't stopped to think? Or do we believe that we have to do something? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 95a614e | But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasingly more powerful and harder to resist. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cbcdfa7 | You'll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is--at best--indifferent to your existence. Whether we were born weak like Roosevelt or we are currently experiencing good times, we should always prepare for things to get tough. In our own way, in our own fight, we are all in the same position Roosevelt was in. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 619d09e | We don't get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 70b7463 | A growth hacker doesn't see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself. The product is then kick-started, shared, and optimized (with these steps repeated multiple times) on its way to massive and rapid growth. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 13190c3 | For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others, they will then be agitated, fearful, and unstable." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.1.12 T" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0164f4f | sangfroid: | Ryan Holiday |