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Time Quotes by Robert Greene

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A fearless mindset can turn death and danger into a chance to move forward. Greene’s lines warn against “dead time” at work, urging learning and observation instead. They also stress that mastering any skill is a matter of time, practice, and careful planning.

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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

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When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

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Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

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Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

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Your college education is a key moment in life.

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For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."

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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them…

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“When people choose between talk about the past and talk about the future, a pragmatic person will always opt for the future…

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“It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as…

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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular…

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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem…

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It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a…

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You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

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“Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan’s happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that…

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50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't…

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I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I…

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If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at…

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In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order…

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When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion…

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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…

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Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or…

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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that…

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We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of…

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If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on…

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“There are three kinds of time for us to deal with; each presents problems that can be solved with skill and practice.…

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If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you…

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In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in…

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“LAW 38 Think As You Like But Behave Like Others If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your…

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Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you…

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“We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires,…

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“Long Time. The famous seventeenth-century Ming painter Chou Yung relates a story that altered his behavior forever. Late one winter afternoon he…

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“We are all in search of feeling more connected to reality—to other people, the times we live in, the natural world, our…

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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

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We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our…

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger,…

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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

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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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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…

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Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your…

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that…

What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what…

“It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grasslands of East Africa some six…

“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible…