Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENENever whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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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 future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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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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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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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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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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