The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENENever whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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