Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
ROBERT GREENEFear 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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