You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
ROBERT GREENEMany a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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 have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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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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Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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