The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENE
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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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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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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