Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
ROBERT GREENEMistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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