You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
ROBERT GREENEWhen 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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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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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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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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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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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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 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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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