It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
ROBERT GREENEI just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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