Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
ROBERT GREENEWe must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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Everybody 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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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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Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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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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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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