"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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Source : Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.263, Profile Books

Robert Greene

#Focus Quotes #Genius Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?”
“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”
“When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.”

Source : Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appallingâ€”an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.”
“If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Stronger people are harder to kill”
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
“My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.”

Source : "Global oil availability has peaked - EU energy chief". Interview, www.reuters.com. November 10, 2010.

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