We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
ROBERT GREENE
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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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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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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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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