Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
ROBERT GREENEOnly create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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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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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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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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 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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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