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 GREENEEverybody 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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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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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Nothing is given to you.
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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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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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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