Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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.
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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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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