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.
ROBERT GREENEFor the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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