Ryan Holiday Verified Quotes

“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.”

“Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity.”

“Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”

“We defeat emotions with logic. Logic is questions and statements. With enough of them, we get to root causes which are always easier to deal with.”

“Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others.”

“If your belief in yourself is not dependent on actual achievement, then what is it dependent on? The answer, too often when we are just setting out, is nothing. Ego.”

“Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”

“Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned.”

“There is always a countermove, always an escape or a way through, so there is no reason to get worked up.”

“Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one's emotions, not in pretending they don't exist.”