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.
ROBERT GREENEEverybody 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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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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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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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