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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

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
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
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
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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Innovation Money Motivational People Success True
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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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
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
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
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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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
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

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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