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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.

Robert Greene

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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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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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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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