QUOTES by Robert Greene
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"In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task."
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"Little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all."
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"Understand: we live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split apart."
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"The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain—like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out."
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"You are like a hunter: your knowledge of every detail of the forest and of the ecosystem as a whole will give you many more options for survival and success."
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"I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself,"
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"Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective."
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"The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?"
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"You must be the mirror, training your mind to try to see yourself as others see you."
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"Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion"
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"The people with money were meddling in mechanical and design affairs. They were interjecting their mediocre ideas into the process and polluting it."
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"If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become—an individual, a Master."
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"Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions."
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"It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous."
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"You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try."
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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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"Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head."
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"Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention."
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"Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society."
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"When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying"
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"Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside of them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part."
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"Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master’s sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence."
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"It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life."
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"The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path—any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation."
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"If no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them."
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"If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when you lead him into a trap."
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"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good."
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"You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious."
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"The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality."
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"You may think that what you’d like to recapture from your youth is your looks, your physical fitness, your simple pleasures, but what you really need is the fluidity of mind you once possessed."
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"Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones."
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"Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience."
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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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