The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENEIf you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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.
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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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 human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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