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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

Robert Greene

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Emotion Engagement Ourselves See Trouble
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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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
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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Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Combination Future Learning Skills
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Action Creation Death Ourselves World
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
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
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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Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
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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Hurt Myself People
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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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Alone Human Problem Room Time
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
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
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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Feeling Kind Life Manifestation Security Talent World Worry Yourself
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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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
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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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
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
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
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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Creativity Dead Energy Fast Future Hate Job Life Myself Thinking Worst
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
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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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence 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

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