Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
ROBERT GREENEFor the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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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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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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 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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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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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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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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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