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
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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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