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Win through your actions, never through argument.

Robert Greene

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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
Playwright
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Norwich
Norfolk
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends I can take care of my enemies.
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I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.
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If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.
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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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In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack
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It's okay to be lost in college.
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Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.
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The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.
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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
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I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
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Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.
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