Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
ROBERT GREENEBe as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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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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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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