If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENEStrike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Nothing is given to you.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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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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 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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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