Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.
Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.
There is a popular saying in Japan that goes Tada yori takai mono wa nai, meaning: Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge. THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988
The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some...
Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise...
Louis XI (1423-1483), the great Spider King of France, had a weakness for astrology. He kept a court astrologer whom he admired, until one day the man predicted that a lady of the court would die with...
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.
LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it...
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
You must engrave deeply in your mind and never forget: your emotional commitment to what you are doing will be translated into your work. If you go at your work with half a heart, it will show in the...
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.
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...
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.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
A bold act requires a high degree of confidence. People who are the targets of an audacious act, or who witness it, cannot help but believe that such confidence is real and justified. They respond ins...
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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