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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.

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
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
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
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
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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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
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
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
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
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
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
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself

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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