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Ryan Holiday Quotes

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1987

Topics

Decision School Parents Me Leave

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Path People Think Admire Repeat Guy

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Power Light Simple Darkness Racism

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

Focus You Lose Never Always Intense

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Blood May Flesh Made Lover Creature

One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.

Travis Bradberry

Work Kindness Looking Credit Kind

I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.

Love Someone Pretend I Love

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Life Men End Easy Empty Forgotten

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

You Be True True More Source May

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Live People Environment Want Basic

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

William Least Heat-Moon

Learn Know Wanted Did

I'm not such a public person.

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

Beginning Effort Me End Doing Meet

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