When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
ROBERT GREENENever whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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