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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More Robert Greene Quotes
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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