Ryan Holiday Quotes

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

If you wish the sympathy of broad masses then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.

I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

The reality television shows are a big hit with the masses with their Bollywood songs. Even if these TV shows are scripted, people are watching them.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there's no rhyme or reason.

I think the advantage I have with yoga is that it is something I can do on my own and can't make excuses that I don't have a place or the time. One can practice yoga anywhere, anytime. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing. For all of these reasons, yoga works for me.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

I've been going to soccer games since I was a kid. For me, soccer brought people together. You didn't need money to do it. You needed one ball and your friends. That's what's so amazing about the game and why it's so global.

I try to make things that are not elitist.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I've kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.

You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

I never planned my movies. I never selected subjects to win the National Award. I did films that made the masses happy.

I am the superstar of the masses.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.