Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
ROBERT GREENEUnderstand: 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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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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 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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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