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.
ROBERT GREENE
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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