“Stop spinning around like a top... Whenever a representation presents itself, confine yourself to what corresponds exactly to reality.”— Pierre Hadot, amazon.com
“Don't let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.”— Epictetus, amazon.com
“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are branches in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know 'why something exists.'”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straight-fowardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing its…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“If you take care of [this] and identify with it, you will never be clocked or frustrated; you won't have to complain and never will need to blame or flatter anyone.”— Epicurus, amazon.com
“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be–it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it, to what we think…”— Saul D. Alinsky, amazon.com
“External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight?”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Nothing but what you get from first impressions. That someone has invited you, for instance. That–but not that it's done you any harm. The fact that my son is sick–that I can see. But 'that he might die of it,' no. Stick with first impressions. Don't extrapolate. And nothing can happen to you.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“How quickly we pronounce final judgments on the things that happen to us, decidedly whether they're good or bad in the first moment they occur–about how in doing so, we surrender our own agency, abandoning the belief we have the power to create meaning out of what happens to us.”— Alex Lickerman MD, amazon.com
“I let all my negatives turn into positives, I use them as motivation. It made me go harder. I never laid down to the losses or the gains. Some losses can bend you over because you're human and the shit hurts. You can ball up. I did the opposite: I G'd up and went harder.”— Birdman, complex.com
“In a continuous process there is no certainty of how or when the open market position will end...Enter: Hope or Fear. Our enemies.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com
“Look at things as discrete events... an activity with a defined ending point.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com