No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
ROBERT GREENEWhen our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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