The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENEBoldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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