The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
ROBERT GREENEMistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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