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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.

Robert Greene

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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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
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
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
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
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
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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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
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
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
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
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
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself

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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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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