Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENEIf 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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Nothing is given to you.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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