Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENEThe world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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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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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Nothing is given to 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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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 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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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