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.
ROBERT GREENEIf 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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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 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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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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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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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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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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