What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
ROBERT GREENEYou must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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