The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENEThe 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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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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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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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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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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