Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
ROBERT GREENEWe must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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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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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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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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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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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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