You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
ROBERT GREENENever whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Become who you are by learning who you 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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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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