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“As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

— Ryan Holiday

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Ryan Holiday Quote: “As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

“As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

— Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday Quote: “As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

Ryan Holiday Quote: “As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

Ryan Holiday Quote: “As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest – which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The way to balance that conflict of interest is to bring in people who are objective.”

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1. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

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2. “There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”

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3. “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”

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4. “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.”

— Ryan Holiday

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5. “Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.”

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6. “Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”

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7. “The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.”

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8. “To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”

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9. “True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.”

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10. “When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”

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11. “Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.”

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12. “We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.”

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13. “Persist and resist”. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. – Epictetus.”

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14. “Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.”

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15. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”

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16. “Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation – without the pestilence of panic or fear.”

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17. “Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?”

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18. “Build a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Ryan Holiday

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19. “You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.”

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20. “Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.”

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21. “Today, let’s focus just on what’s in front of us.”

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22. “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”?”

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23. “An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.”

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24. “Great times are great softeners.”

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25. “Success becomes a matter of momentum. Once you get a little, it’s easier to keep it going.”

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26. “There’s a great expression: Whatever you’re not changing, you’re choosing.”

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27. “I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.”

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28. “In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.”

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29. “Stillness is the key to, well, just about everything.”

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30. “First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.”

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31. “The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.”

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32. “The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.”

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33. “What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. – GOETHE.”

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34. “In a world of distraction, focusing is a superpower.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

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37. “Happy is the man who can make others better,” Seneca writes, “not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts.”

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38. “What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”

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39. “Think progress, not perfection.”

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40. “Find clarity in the simplicity of doing your job today.”

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41. “Ego is more than just off-putting and obnoxious. Instead, it’s the sworn enemy of our ability to learn and grow.”

— Ryan Holiday

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42. “Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.”

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43. “Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.”

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44. “Each time, you’ll learn something. Each time, you’ll develop strength, wisdom, and perspective. Each time, a little more of the competition falls away. Until all that is left is you: the best version of you.”

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45. “What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason – because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.”

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46. “No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.”

— Ryan Holiday

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47. “Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.”

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48. “I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” – SENECA, ON PROVIDENCE, 4.3.”

— Ryan Holiday

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49. “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.”

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50. “Doing great work is a struggle. It’s draining, it’s demoralizing, it’s frightening. We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void, facing it instead of scrambling to make it go away. The question is, when faced with your particular challenge, do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head-on?”

— Ryan Holiday

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