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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Robert Greene

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
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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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
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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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
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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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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Blame People Try World
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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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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