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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Robert Greene

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water 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
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
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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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
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
Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Happiness Right Talk 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
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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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst
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
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
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

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

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