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.
ROBERT GREENEYou’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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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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