All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
ROBERT GREENEPeople go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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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 world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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 future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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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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