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 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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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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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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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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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 have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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