When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
ROBERT GREENEHasty climbers have sudden falls.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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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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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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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