Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENENever waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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