Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
ROBERT GREENE
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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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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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Nothing is given to you.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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