If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENEMany a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Nothing is given to you.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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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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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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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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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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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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 human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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