The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
ROBERT GREENEMistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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