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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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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 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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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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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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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There’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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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