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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Robert Greene

For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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
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
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
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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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time 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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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
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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Blame People Try World
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

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