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Ryan Holiday

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Author of 'Ego is the Enemy' & 'The Obstacle Is The Way'.
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1,219 quotes curated by Ryan Holiday:

“It is essential to make your ordinary bearing–the bearing you use in martial arts. And make the bearing you use in martial arts your ordinary bearing.”
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Tagged: Vision
“The idea is to keep a serene expression.”
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Tagged: Vision
“Raskin had little patience for Jobs's belief that you could distort reality if you had enough passion for your product.”
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There's no other definition of it.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tagged: Genius
“All things happen to him, not according to his wish, but according to what he has thought. What he thinks above all is that something can always oppose his plans.”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“Nothing happens to the sage contrary to his expectations, for he foresees that something may intervene to prevent what he has planned from being carried out.”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“Is thinking about bad stuff morbid? No, this is a way of valuing good, living in the present.”
— Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“We all know this is the one screen we want to do. So let's make it work.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“This was a lunatic plan... Apple would never be a consumer products company... We couldn't bend reality to all our dreams of changing the world... High tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.”
— John Sculley, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion
“We had to drive a stake in the ground somewhere.”
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Reality Distortion