The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENEPeople go into things for the wrong reasons.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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 cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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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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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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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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