Nothing is given to you.
ROBERT GREENEWe must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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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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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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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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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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