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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.

Robert Greene

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
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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Disguise Fake Honesty Quality Remember Weapon
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
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.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
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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Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
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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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself

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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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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