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
ROBERT GREENEIf 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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