There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
ROBERT GREENELife 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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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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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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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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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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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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