You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
ROBERT GREENEYou must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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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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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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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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