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.
ROBERT GREENEI just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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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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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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