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.
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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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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