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Adapted from the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene. Now available on paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X/

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Page 1: 20 Quotes for Achieving Mastery

by

ROBERT

GREENE

2 0 Q U O T E S O N

MASTERY

Page 2: 20 Quotes for Achieving Mastery

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

“One can have no smaller

or greater mastery than

mastery of oneself.”

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~ Honoré De Balzac

“An unfulfilled

vocation drains the colour

from a man’s entire

existence.”

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~ Robert Greene

“Mistakes and failures are precisely

your means of education. They

tell you about your own

inadequacies.”

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~ Albert Einstein

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind

is a faithful servant. We have created

a society that honors the servant and

has forgotten the gift.”

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~ Zora Neale Hurston

“I have the nerve to walk my own way,

however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb

upon the rattling wagon

of wishful illusions.”

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~ Robert Greene

“The passive ironic attitude

is not cool or romantic, but pathetic

and destructive.”

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~ Bill Bradley

“When you are not practicing,

remember, someone

somewhere is practicing,

and when you meet him

he will win.”

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~ Robert Greene

“No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the

lessons contained in every

experience.”

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~ Johann Peter

Eckermann

“A man of talent is not born to be left

to himself, but to devote himself to art and good

masters who will make something of him.”

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~ Charles Darwin

“I trust that I shall act—as I now think—

that a man who dares to waste one hour of time, has not discovered the value of life…

there is nothing as intolerable as idleness.”

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~ Robert Greene

“Mastery is not a question of genetics

of luck, but of following

your natural inclinations

and the deep desires that

stirs you from

within.”

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~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“One repays a teacher

badly if one

remains only a pupil.”

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~ Robert Greene

“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.”

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~ Ralph Waldo

Emerson

“In every work of genius we recognize

our own rejected thoughts; they

come back to us with a certain

alienated majesty.”

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~ Robert Greene

“It is the height of selfishness to merely

consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited

goals and immediate pleasures.”

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~ Arthur

Schopenhauer

“To become indignant at [people’s] conduct is as

foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people

the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve

to make use of those whom you

cannot alter.”

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~ Robert Greene

“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.”

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~ Robert Greene

“Your work is the single greatest

means at your disposal

for expressing your social

intelligence.”

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THE POTENTIAL FOR MASTERY LIES WITH YOU.

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WITHIN YOU AND BECOME A

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