The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENEIf 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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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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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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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