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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Robert Greene

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Happiness Right Talk Yourself
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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Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
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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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
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 stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Close Enemy Friendship Power Stability Transformation
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
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try 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
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
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 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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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
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
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
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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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
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
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
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
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

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