Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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