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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.

Robert Greene

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
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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Creation Position Thinking Worry 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
You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Development Transformation World Worth 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
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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Hurt Myself People
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
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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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
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
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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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand

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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