People go into things for the wrong reasons.
ROBERT GREENEHasty climbers have sudden falls.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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