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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

Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
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
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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Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Attention Experience Learning Lesson Moments Pay Wasted Time Yourself
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
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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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
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
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
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
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
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
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

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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