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.
ROBERT GREENERemember: 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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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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