Ryan Holiday Quotes Page 3
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“Don’t think. Don’t overanalyze. Do the work.”
“Everything you say yes to is saying no to something else:
- Taking the meeting means saying no to an hour of reading.
- Scrolling mindlessly late at night means saying no to a productive morning.
- The Zoom call means saying no to some deep work.
Pick your shots. Say no.”
“Focus on effort, not outcomes.”
“I don’t know many smart people who watch cable television news.”
“Life is about tradeoffs.
When we know what to say no to, and we know why, we can say yes with comfort and confidence to the things that matter. To the things that last.”
“Pay the taxes of life gladly. Not just from the government. Annoying people are a tax on being outside your house. Delays are a tax on travel. Haters are a tax on having a YouTube channel. There’s a tax on everything in life. You can whine. Or you can pay them gladly.”
“See opportunities where others see obstacles.”
“Stop powering through crap:
There are many books I regret powering through, none that I regret quitting. Life is too short to put up with bad writing — bad anything.
If the food sucks, stop eating it. If the speaker is boring, get up and go. If the party is no fun, leave.”
“What do we want more of in life? That’s the question.
It’s not accomplishments. It’s not popularity. It’s moments when we feel like we are enough. More presence. More clarity. More insight. More truth. More stillness.”
“What we desire makes us vulnerable.”
“When others treat you poorly it doesn't degrade you, it degrades them.”
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“Schools teach students to seek the approval of their teachers. Indeed, for all of our differences, this is one area that parents and teachers share; we are wired or we are hired to believe in you, to approve you, to prevent or mitigate the experiences of disappointment…Try to correct this in two ways. First seek people, work for people who don’t have to like you, people who can easily disapprove of you, people that you can’t easily please. Their skepticism or indifference will define you. Second, if you don’t how to do so already, begin working for yourself, and let the teachers be damned. But they won’t be – they’ll just be all the more approving because that kind of integrity can only command respect. After all, most of the work we devise is devised for students who are not working for themselves, so those that do surpass our expectations and teach us things that we’ve never thought of.”
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