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 GREENEHasty climbers have sudden falls.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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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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Nothing is given to you.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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