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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.

Robert Greene

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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
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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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
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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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
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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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
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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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
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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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself

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