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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Robert Greene

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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Development Transformation World Worth Yourself
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
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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Deep Desire Follow Master Question Yourself
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
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
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
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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Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
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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Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time

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