Nothing is given to you.
ROBERT GREENELord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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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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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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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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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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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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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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