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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.

Robert Greene

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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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
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
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
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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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
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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Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
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
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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Hurt Myself People
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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Innovation Money Motivational People Success True
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
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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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
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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Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself

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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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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