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“Most people don’t actually want to face the flinch; they just want to be in a movie about
it. They want the glory, not the suffering. They don’t want scars because they like being
soft. They don’t want to be humiliated; they want respect—they just don’t want to earn it.
They want the keys handed to them. But it doesn’t work that way.”
― Julien Smith, The Flinch

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“A poet’s function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“In this course, it is not “Who do I want to be in life?” but “What is it that I
want to accomplish in life?”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy