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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.

Robert Greene

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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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
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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Blame People Try World
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Development Transformation World Worth Yourself
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself

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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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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