Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENEKeep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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