Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
ROBERT GREENEWin through your actions, never through argument.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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