Win through your actions, never through argument.
ROBERT GREENEThe world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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