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When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.
When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.
The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.
A person who is truly authentic doesn't need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him - or herself.
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.
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.
Many people have an intense feeling about what they're best at. Too often, they're driven away from it by other people.
Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.
Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.
It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.
Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
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.
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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.
We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.
I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.
Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.
I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.