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.
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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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If 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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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