Ryan Holiday Quotes

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens.

My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

I believe in making your own opportunity.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.