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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.

Robert Greene

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Production Serious Thinking Work
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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Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself
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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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Attack Enemy Solid Water Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Goodness Myself People Self Love
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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Creativity Life Positive Rule Therapy World
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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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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Complain Justice Try Yourself
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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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
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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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
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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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
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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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong

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