If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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