Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
ROBERT GREENESome 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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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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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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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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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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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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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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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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