If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
ROBERT GREENEIt 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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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