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The implications of our obstacle are theoretical—they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Cashing in for short-term pleasure leads to long-term agony.
— Ray Dalio
The more important and perennial a problem (or, in the case of art, the more clearly it expresses some essential part of the human experience), the better chance the products that address
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Clock of the Long Now
Old Farmer's Almanac • The 2023 Old Farmer's Almanac
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
it focused on what was timeless about timely events.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
You can’t make something that lasts if it’s based on things, on individual parts that themselves won’t last, or if it’s driven by an amateur’s impatience.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Things of quality have no fear of time.
—Anon.
