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.
ROBERT GREENENever 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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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Nothing is given to you.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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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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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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