“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.”Tagged: Power, Reputation, Gossip
“Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.”Tagged: Power
“Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.”Tagged: Power, Secrets
“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.”Tagged: Power, Envy, Showing Off
“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 will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.”Tagged: Words, Saying Less, Power
“Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”Tagged: Words, Saying Less, Power
“Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.”Tagged: present, Too Much Living In The Moment, Detachment, Big Picture
“A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not…”Tagged: Giving Up, Illusion of Escape, Running Away From Your Problems, The Dream of Being Detached From The World When You're In The World And Can't Escape It, Escape
“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”Tagged: skills, Intelligence, Learning, Education
“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”Tagged: Creative, Energy, emotions
“The idea or theory that you are currently formulating, that seems so fresh and alive and truthful, will almost certainly be shot down or ridiculed in a few decades or centuries. And so it is best to keep this in mind and not grow too fond of your ideas or too certain of their truth.”Tagged: Exformation, You Know Nothing, My Philosophy, The Vanity of Trends
“The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of…”Tagged: Naive Perspective, Radical Acceptance, Always Say Yes To The No Of Life