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.
Win through your actions, never through argument.
If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
The conventional mind is passive – it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
Hip-hop, you can’t really do that when you’re in your 50s.
Mastery is not a question of genetics or luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stir you from within.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.