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.
ROBERT GREENEThere’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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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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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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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.
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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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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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