If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENEMistakes 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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Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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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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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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