Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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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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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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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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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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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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