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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.

Robert Greene

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
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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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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Deep Desire Follow Master Question 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
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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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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Bad Believe Blessing Fact Myself Reason
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
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
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
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
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
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
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
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
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Aware Day Future Yourself
Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst
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
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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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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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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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True

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