Never appear overly greedy for attention, then, for it signals insecurity, and insecurity drives power away. Understand that there are times when it is not in your interest to be the center of attenti...
Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120
Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.
Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.
For the future, the motto is, No days unalert.
Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.
Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance
Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and...
Become who you are by learning who you are.
Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C. OBSERVANCE
Despise The Free Lunch
If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.
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.
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you...
Long Time. The famous seventeenth-century Ming painter Chou Yung relates a story that altered his behavior forever. Late one winter afternoon he set out to visit a town that lay across the river from...
Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
Eventually, you will hit upon a particular field, niche, or opportunity that suits you perfectly. You will recognize it when you find it because it will spark that childlike sense of wonder and excite...
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