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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

Robert Greene

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
Win through your actions, never through argument.
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Action Argument Win
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
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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Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
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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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
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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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

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