626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Control your perceptions.Direct your actions properly.Willingly accept what's outside of your control.That's all we need to do.

Sherman had a good rule he tried to observe. "never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe, after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.

As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It’s essential to constantly keep this in your mind, for it will make you more gentle to all.

... coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder...

Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the demands of the audience, and so much more. These incentives are real, whether you're at The Huffington Post or some tiny blog. Taken individually, the resulting output is obvious: bad stories, incomplete stories, wrong stories, unimportant stories.

Con mucha frecuencia, debido a que estamos convencidos de nuestra propia inteligencia, nos mantenemos en una zona de confort que garantiza que nunca nos sintamos estúpidos (y que nunca enfrentemos el reto de aprender o reconsiderar lo que sabemos). Esto nos impide ver varias debilidades de nuestra comprensión y, con el tiempo, ya es demasiado tarde. Ahí es donde pagamos un precio silencioso.

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.

It´s a populist irony--the strongman comes to power by making impossible and destructive promises to the disenfranchised. Do they actually have any intention of helping these people? Of course not. In fact, they´ll actively stymie any reforms that will actually make the system more fair. All that matters is their iron grip on their ignorant base and the power that comes from it.